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Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand
Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep, is the capital and largest city of Thailand, with an official 2000 census population of 6,355,144. Bangkok is located at 13°45'N 100°31'E, on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, near the Gulf of Thailand.Bangkok is a fast growing, economically dynamic city in Southeast Asia. Although a regional hub and due to its large population and central location within Southeastern Asia and Thailand itself, it lacks the sophisticated mature infrastructure of Singapore and Hong Kong. The World Meteorological Organization has dubbed Bangkok the world's hottest large city. Moreover, it is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, attracting everyone from families to adventure seekers to sex tourists to refugees. Bangkok is also known for relatively low prices due to vast numbers of street vendors and stalls and a large cheap labor pool.
Bangkok began as a small trading center and port community, called Bang Makok, serving Ayutthaya, which was the capital of the nation (then known as Siam) until it fell to Burma in 1767. A new capital was then established at Thonburi on the west side of the river, before King Rama I built his palace on the east bank in 1782 and renamed his city Krung Thep, meaning the "City of Angels". The name Bangkok now refers only to an old district on the Thonburi side of the river, but continues to be used to refer to the entire city by most foreigners.
Though tourism is a mainstay of Bangkok's economy, curfew in Thailand is 1 am nationwide, and 2 am in Patpong area. Many nightclubs, such as Ministry of Sound, have left Bangkok for Singapore or elsewhere in frustration with this policy. Still others refrain from opening a nightclub where clubs most close by 2 am. Ironically, there are some small nightclubs that for some reason or another are allowed to stay open all night. Also, the smoking ban doesnt extend to nightclubs, keeping many residents away as most Thais dislike cigarette smoke.
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