Bangkok

Thailand

Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and largest city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 9.1 million people as of 2024, 15.9% of the country's population.

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Country: Thailand
Population: 6,704,000
Latitude: 13.75° N
Longitude: 100.51° E

Which way is Bangkok from…

From Paris, Bangkok lies at 75° to the east, 9,444 km as the crow flies.

Paris	75° east	9,444 km
London	73° east	9,533 km
New York	7° north	13,933 km
Madrid	70° east	10,183 km
Rome	81° east	8,830 km
Montreal	7° north	13,400 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	56° north-east	6,249 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

From New York, you aim at Bangkok to the north, at 7°, where a flat map says 100°, east: the shortest route passes near the North Pole, then drops down through Siberia. From London, the map would point you south-east, at 115°; the compass says 73°, east, 9,533 km away. And the antipode of Thailand’s capital lies 325 km from Lima.