TH · Curated travel guide
Ayutthaya Historical Park, Grand Palace, Wat Phra Kaew and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Thailand and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 2 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Historical park in Thailand
A park covering the ruins of the old city of Ayutthaya, in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province, Thailand. King Ramathibodi I founded the city in 1351, though it is probably much older, since evidence shows people already lived here in the Mon Dvaravati period.
Photo: Heinrich Damm ( User:Hdamm , Hdamm at de.wikipedia.org ), CC BY 2.0
Royal residence in Bangkok, Thailand
Since 1782 the official home of Siam's kings: a complex of buildings at the centre of Bangkok, in Thailand.
Photo: Preecha.MJ, CC BY-SA 4.0
Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand
Known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, and officially Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, regarded as Thailand's holiest Buddhist temple: a group of buildings inside the Grand Palace grounds in Bangkok's historic centre.
Photo: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sukhothai province Thailand
A park covering the ruins of Sukhothai, whose name means 'dawn of happiness'. In the 13th and 14th centuries the city was the Sukhothai Kingdom's capital; it lies in north-central Thailand, near Sukhothai Thani, the provincial capital.
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0
Highest mountain in Thailand
Thailand's highest mountain, in Chom Thong District, Chiang Mai Province.
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site
A protected area in Thailand, in southern Tak Province and northern Kanchanaburi Province. Made a wildlife sanctuary in 1972, it was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1991 together with the neighbouring Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary.
Photo: Altaileopard, CC0
Elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand
Properly the Bangkok Mass Transit System: elevated rapid transit lines in Thailand's capital, owned by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and run under concession by Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL (BTSC), part of BTS Group Holdings.
Photo: My Train Pix, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hotel skyscraper in Bangkok, Thailand
A hotel skyscraper of 88 floors, 309 m (1,014 ft) tall, at 222 Ratchaprarop Road, Ratchathewi District, Bangkok, Thailand; among the city's finished buildings, only MahaNakhon and Magnolias Waterfront Residences at ICONSIAM are taller.
Photo: Paolobon140, CC0
Protected area in Thailand
A wildlife sanctuary in Thailand's Tak and Uthai Thani provinces, set up in 1972 and part of Mainland Southeast Asia's largest intact complex of seasonal tropical forest.
Photo: Teeradondon, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Kingdom of Thailand, and formerly Siam, a country of Mainland Southeast Asia. Myanmar lies to its west and northwest, Laos to its east and northeast, Cambodia to its southeast and Malaysia to its south. Its waters take in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, and it has sea borders with India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Officially The Kingdom of Thailand. Known locally as Mueang Thai, Prathet Thai, Ratcha-anachak Thai เมืองไทย, ประเทศไทย, ราชอาณาจักรไทย.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Ayutthaya Historical Park, Grand Palace, Wat Phra Kaew and Wat Arun and others. Ayutthaya Historical Park and Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Thailand that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
2 of the 10 in this guide: Ayutthaya Historical Park and Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary. That is not the full count for Thailand, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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