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Gulf of Thailand

Index Gulf of Thailand

The Gulf of Thailand, formerly the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the western part of the South China and Eastern Archipelagic Seas, a marginal body of water in the western Pacific Ocean. [1]

91 relations: Age of Discovery, Ao Manao, Bandon Bay, Bang Pakong River, Bay of Bangkok, Bay of Kompong Som, Bryde's whale, Cambodia, Cape Cà Mau, Cetacea, Cha-am District, Chachoengsao Province, Chao Phraya River, Chinese white dolphin, Chonburi Province, Chumphon Province, Continental shelf, Coral, Coral bleaching, Critically endangered, Dragon's Tail (peninsula), Dugong, East Indian Archipelago, Exclusive economic zone, Filter feeder, Geography and cartography in medieval Islam, Hawksbill sea turtle, Hua Hin District, Hydraulic action, International Hydrographic Organization, Irrawaddy dolphin, Kelantan River, Khmer language, Ko Chang District, Ko Khram, Ko Kra, Ko Kut District, Ko Lan, Ko Losin, Ko Mak, Ko Pha-ngan, Ko Phai, Ko Phaluai, Ko Samet, Ko Samui, Ko Sichang District, Ko Tao, Koh Kong (island), Koh Rong, Kota Bharu, ..., List of cartographers, List of Graeco-Roman geographers, Mae Klong, Magnus Sinus, Malay language, Mekong, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Thailand), Ocean current, Oceanic basin, Omura's whale, Pacific Ocean, Pattaya, Phú Quốc, Phetchaburi Province, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Pockmark (geology), Portuguese discoveries, Prachuap Bay, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Rai (unit), Rayong Province, Royal Thai Government Gazette, Salinity, Samae San Island, Samut Prakan Province, Samut Sakhon Province, Sattahip Bay, Sediment, Songkhla Province, South China Sea, Southeast Asia, Surat Thani Province, Tapi River, Thailand, Tha Chin River, Thai language, Thailand, Tonne, Vietnam, Vietnamese language, Whale watching, 2010 floods in Thailand and north Malaysia. Expand index (41 more) »

Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration (approximately from the beginning of the 15th century until the end of the 18th century) is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.

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Ao Manao

Ao Manao (อ่าวมะนาว), meaning "Lime Bay", is a bay in the west side of the Gulf of Thailand.

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Bandon Bay

Bandon Bay (อ่าวบ้านดอน) is a bay in the Gulf of Thailand in Surat Thani Province, extending from the Sui cape in Chaiya District in the northwest to Kanchanadit District to the east.

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Bang Pakong River

The Bang Pakong (แม่น้ำบางปะกง) is a river in east Thailand.

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Bay of Bangkok

The Bay of Bangkok (อ่าวกรุงเทพ), also known as the Bight of Bangkok, is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Thailand, roughly extending from Hua Hin District to the west and Sattahip District to the east.

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Bay of Kompong Som

The Bay of Kompong Som is a southern bay of Cambodia.

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Bryde's whale

Bryde's whale or the Bryde's whale complex putatively comprises two species of rorqual and maybe three.

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Cambodia

Cambodia (កម្ពុជា, or Kampuchea:, Cambodge), officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia (ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា, prĕəh riəciənaacak kampuciə,; Royaume du Cambodge), is a sovereign state located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Cape Cà Mau

Cape Cà Mau (Mũi Cà Mau) on Cà Mau Peninsula in Vietnam, is the southernmost point of the Indochinese mainland.

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Cetacea

Cetacea are a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

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Cha-am District

Cha-am (ชะอำ, or) is a district (amphoe) in the southern part of Phetchaburi Province, western Thailand.

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Chachoengsao Province

Chachoengsao (ฉะเชิงเทรา) is a province (changwat) of Thailand.

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Chao Phraya River

The Chao Phraya (แม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา, or) is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country.

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Chinese white dolphin

The Chinese white dolphin is a variety of Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin (Sousa chinensis). This variety inhabits the eastern portion of the species range, in Southeast Asia and Australia.

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Chonburi Province

Chonburi is an eastern province (changwat) of Thailand.

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Chumphon Province

Chumphon (ชุมพร) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand on the Gulf of Thailand.

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Continental shelf

The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea.

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Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.

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Coral bleaching

Coral bleaching occurs when coral polyps expel algae that live inside their tissues.

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Critically endangered

A critically endangered (CR) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Dragon's Tail (peninsula)

The Dragon's Tail is a modern name for the phantom peninsula in southeast Asia which appeared in medieval Arabian and Renaissance European world maps.

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Dugong

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal.

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East Indian Archipelago

The East Indian Archipelago (Indonesia) is an area designated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

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Exclusive economic zone

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

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Filter feeder

Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.

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Geography and cartography in medieval Islam

Medieval Islamic geography was based on Hellenistic geography and reached its apex with Muhammad al-Idrisi in the 12th century.

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Hawksbill sea turtle

The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.

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Hua Hin District

Hua Hin District (หัวหิน) is one of eight districts (amphoe) of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula in Thailand.

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Hydraulic action

Hydraulic action is the erosion that occurs when the motion of water against a rock surface produces mechanical weathering.

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the inter-governmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Irrawaddy dolphin

The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) is a euryhaline species of oceanic dolphin found in discontinuous subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries and rivers in parts of the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia.

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Kelantan River

The Kelantan River (named Sungai Kelantan in the standard Malay language or Sunga Kelate as it is pronounced in Kelantanese dialect) is the major river in Kelantan, Malaysia.

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Khmer language

Khmer or Cambodian (natively ភាសាខ្មែរ phiəsaa khmae, or more formally ខេមរភាសា kheemaʾraʾ phiəsaa) is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia.

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Ko Chang District

Ko Chang (เกาะช้าง) is an amphoe (district) in Trat Province, Thailand.

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Ko Khram

Ko Khram (เกาะคราม), also known as Ko Khram Yai, is an island in Bangkok Bay located about 24 km to the SSW of Pattaya.

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Ko Kra

Ko Kra (เกาะกระ) is a group of small rocky islets in the southern area of the Gulf of Thailand.

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Ko Kut District

Ko Kut (เกาะกูด) is a district (amphoe) of Trat Province, eastern Thailand, consisting of a group of islands.

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Ko Lan

Ko Lan (เกาะล้าน) is one of the eastern seaboard islands of Thailand.

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Ko Losin

Ko Losin (เกาะโลซิน) is a small rocky islet in the southern area of the Gulf of Siam.

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Ko Mak

Ko Mak (เกาะหมาก) is a small island of Trat Province, Thailand.

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Ko Pha-ngan

Ko Pha-ngan (เกาะพะงัน) is an island in the Gulf of Thailand in southeast Thailand in Surat Thani Province.

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Ko Phai

Ko Phai (เกาะไผ่) is the largest island in Mu Ko Phai (หมู่เกาะไผ่), a small uninhabited archipelago on the eastern seaboard of Thailand.

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Ko Phaluai

Ko Phaluai (Koh Phaluai, Koh Paluay) or "เกาะพะลวย" in Thai, is the biggest island in the Mu Ko Ang Thong island group.

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Ko Samet

Ko Samet (Cajeput Island; เกาะเสม็ด) is one of the eastern seaboard islands of Thailand.

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Ko Samui

Ko Samui (or Koh Samui, เกาะสมุย) is an island off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus, Thailand.

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Ko Sichang District

Ko Sichang (or Koh Sichang, เกาะสีชัง) is a district (amphoe) of Chonburi Province, Thailand.

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Ko Tao

Ko Tao (also often Koh Tao, เกาะเต่า,, lit. "Turtle Island") is an island in Thailand and is part of the Chumphon Archipelago on the western shore of the Gulf of Thailand.

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Koh Kong (island)

Koh Kong (កោះកុង; is an island in the Gulf of Thailand, in the coastal waters of Cambodia, around south of Koh Kong town, as it is part of Koh Kong Province. It is Cambodia's largest island.

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Koh Rong

Koh Rong (កោះរ៉ុង., also romanized as Kaôh Rōng or Kos Rong), is the second largest island of Cambodia.

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Kota Bharu

Kota Bharu (Jawi: كوت بهارو; Chinese: 哥打峇鲁; occasionally referred to as Kota Baharu) is a city in Malaysia that serves as the state capital and royal seat of Kelantan.

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List of cartographers

Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.

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List of Graeco-Roman geographers

;Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece.

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Mae Klong

The Mae Klong, sometimes spelled Mae Khlong or Meklong, is a river in western Thailand.

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Magnus Sinus

The Magnus Sinus or Sinus Magnus (Latin; ὀ Μέγας Κόλπος, o Mégas Kólpos), also anglicized as the was the form of the Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea known to Greek, Roman, Arab, Persian, and Renaissance cartographers before the Age of Discovery.

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Malay language

Malay (Bahasa Melayu بهاس ملايو) is a major language of the Austronesian family spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

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Mekong

The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia.

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Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Thailand)

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Kingdom of Thailand (กระทรวงทรัพยากรธรรมชาติและสิ่งแวดล้อม;; Abrv: MNRE or MONRE) is a cabinet ministry in the Government of Thailand.

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Ocean current

An ocean current is a seasonal directed movement of sea water generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbing, temperature and salinity differences, while tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon.

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Oceanic basin

In hydrology, an oceanic basin may be anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater but geologically ocean basins are large geologic basins that are below sea level.

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Omura's whale

Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale (Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Pattaya

Pattaya (พัทยา) is a resort city in Thailand.

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Phú Quốc

Phú Quốc, known as Koh Tral in Khmer, is the largest island in Vietnam.

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Phetchaburi Province

Phetchaburi (เพชรบุรี) or Phet Buri is one of the western or central provinces (changwat) of Thailand.

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Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller

Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (April 25, 1725 – January 5, 1776) was a German zoologist.

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Pockmark (geology)

Pockmarks are craters in the seabed caused by fluids (gas and liquids) erupting and streaming through the sediments.

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Portuguese discoveries

Portuguese discoveries (Portuguese: Descobrimentos portugueses) are the numerous territories and maritime routes discovered by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Prachuap Bay

Prachuap Bay (อ่าวประจวบ) is a bay in the west side of the Gulf of Siam or Gulf of Thailand.

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Prachuap Khiri Khan Province

Prachuap Khiri Khan (ประจวบคีรีขันธ์) is one of the western provinces (changwat) of Thailand.

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Rai (unit)

A rai (ไร่) is a unit of area, equal to 1 square sen or 1,600 square metres (40 m × 40 m or 0.16 hectares), and is used in measuring land area for a cadastre or cadastral map.

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Rayong Province

Rayong Province (ระยอง,; Chong: ราย็ององค์ บรรจุน. สยามหลากเผ่าหลายพันธุ์. กรุงเทพฯ:มติชน, 2553, หน้า 128) is a province (changwat) of Thailand.

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Royal Thai Government Gazette

The Royal Thai Government Gazette (ราชกิจจานุเบกษา), frequently abbreviated Government Gazette (GG) or Royal Gazette (RG), is the public journal and newspaper of record of Thailand.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water (see also soil salinity).

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Samae San Island

Samae-San Island (เกาะแสมสาร; Ko Samae-San) is a small island in Sattahip District, Chonburi Province of Thailand.

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Samut Prakan Province

Samut Prakan (สมุทรปราการ) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand, established by the Act Establishing Changwat Samut Prakan, Changwat Nonthaburi, Changwat Samut Sakhon and Changwat Nakhon Nayok, Buddhist Era 2489 (1946), which came into force 9 March 1946.

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Samut Sakhon Province

Samut Sakhon (สมุทรสาคร) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand, established by the Act Establishing Changwat Samut Prakan, Changwat Nonthaburi, Changwat Samut Sakhon, and Changwat Nakhon Nayok, Buddhist Era 2489 (1946), which came into force on March 9, 1946.

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Sattahip Bay

Sattahip Bay (อ่าวสัตหีบ) is a bay in the east side of the Gulf of Siam or Gulf of Thailand.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Songkhla Province

Songkhla (สงขลา,; Singgora) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand.

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South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Surat Thani Province

Surat Thani (สุราษฎร์ธานี), often shortened to Surat, is the largest of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand, on the western shore of the Gulf of Thailand.

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Tapi River, Thailand

The Tapi (or Tapee) river (แม่น้ำตาปี) is the longest river in southern Thailand.

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Tha Chin River

The Tha Chin river (แม่น้ำท่าจีน) is a distributary of the Chao Phraya river, Thailand.

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Thai language

Thai, Central Thai, or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the first language of the Central Thai people and vast majority Thai of Chinese origin.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language that originated in Vietnam, where it is the national and official language.

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Whale watching

Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.

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2010 floods in Thailand and north Malaysia

A series of flash floods hit different areas of Thailand and Malaysia in 2010.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Thailand

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