Did You Know – Thailand

What is in a name? Well, there is the name that everyone knows you by, and then there is your full name.

For example, if I said I was going to visit “Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit” most people wouldn’t know where I was going. But if I said Bangkok, most would.

Well, that is the actual full name of Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand. It is the longest place in the world. It means “City of Angels, Great City of Immortals, Magnificent City of the Nine Gems, Seat of the King, City of Royal Palaces, Home of Gods Incarnate, Erected by Visvakarman at Indra’s Behest.”

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