Bangkok is positioned while in the Chao Phraya River delta in Thailand's central plain. The river meanders through the metropolis inside a southerly way, emptying into the Gulf of Thailand close to twenty five kilometres (16 mi) south of town centre. The realm is flat and low-lying, with a

The city, included for a Distinctive administrative place beneath the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in 1972, grew quickly through the 1960s through the nineteen eighties and now exerts an important effect on Thailand's politics, financial system, training, media and contemporary Modern soc