The countries sharing border with Thailand are Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. Thailand shares a total of 4863 kilometers with its neighboring countries. The beautiful coastline of Thailand comprises of 3219 kilometers. Thailand experiences a tropical, rainy and warm climate from mid May to September. The Thai people enjoy dry and cool northeast monsoon from November to mid March. The southern isthmus part is always hot and humid.
Thailand geography also features variety of landscape. The country includes central plain, Khorat plateau in the east and mountains scattered here and there. The total irrigated land area available to the farmers is 47,490 square kilometers. Natural calamities like droughts and land slides are quite common. The environment of Thailand faces threat from air pollution, water pollution, soil erosion, deforestation and illegal hunting of wild life, which hampers the ecological balance. Thus we can say that the geography of Thailand is beautiful and picturesque.
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