ABOUT BANGKOK
Bangkok AKA Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or Krung Thep (City of Angels) for short is the
capital of Thailand. The city was a small trading center in the Ayuthtaya era which
was the capital of Thailand until it was burnt by the Burmese army in 1767. A new
capital was then established at Thonburi on the west side of the Chao Phraya River
before Bangkok was instituted as the new capital in 1782 by King Rama I the Great,the
first monarch of the present Chakri dynasty. Currently, there are more than 10 million
people live in the City of Angels and it is the center...
