Human Geography: Political Borders

Thailand shares political borders with Laos, Malaysia, Burma, and Cambodia. Most of the current political borders were established by European colonial powers. The conflicts from surrounding countries could also be moved over to Thailand. Most of Thailands conflicts have originated from the neighboring countries.
Citations: CIA Factbook and google images: Thailand borders

Human Geography: Current and or future issues

Currently, Thailand has some environmental issues that are centered around pollution and endangered species. There are also border disputes with Cambodia which have resulted in conflict. Along with this is the avian flu flying around, ethnic rebels, 132,241 refugees from Burma, human trafficking and illegal drugs traveling through borders. It is apparent that Thailand has to not only worry about internal issues, but external ones as well do to its tense relationship with its neighbors.
Citations: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK and google images: Thailand issues

Human Geography: Economic Activities (including level of development)

The labor force in Thailand is:
40.7% participate in agriculture
13.2% in industry
46.1% participate in services
Overall Thailand is generally developed beacause a good amount of the population are in services which is more than agriculture and industry individually.

Citation: CIA World Factbook and google images: Thailand economic activities

Human Geography: Goverment System

Thailand has a constitutional monarchy with seventy-seven provinces and an executive, legislative and judicial branches. The executive branch consist of the king and the prime minister, who is voted for by the people. The legislative branch has a senate and a house of representatives which is made up of people from each province. The judicial branch holds the constitutional court, the supreme court of justice and the supreme administrive court; all the judges are appointed by the king. The reason for its current system could be drawn to it's relationship with the U.S. and its willingness to adopt some western ideas but not all.
Citation: CIA Factbook and google images: Thailand flag

Human Geography: Demographics

Population is about 65,905,410 people. The life expectancy for men is 70.8 years, and for females it's 75.5 years; all together it's 73.1 years. The infant mortality rate is 17.63 deaths per 1,000 live births, the total fortality rate is 1.65 children born per woman (higher in provinces, lower in Bangkok). The birth rate is 13.4 per 1,000 people in the population. The death rate is 7.17 per 1,000 people in the population. The infant mortality and birth rates are steadily dropping. Thailand's demographics show that Thailand is generally developed but does have some minor problems. However the infant mortality rate is decreasing which is evidence that Thailand is developing.
Citation: CIA World Factbook

Human Geography: Culture

Thailands speaks mostly Thai and English. Their religion is 94.6% Buddhist, 4.6% Muslim, .7% Christian, and .1% other. The food there is mostly hot and spicey with some influences from China. One traditional belief in Thailand is that families send their 20 year old son son(s) on a 3 month monk hood. Also, in Thailand, they have a specific greeting called the Wai. To do the Wai, you bring your palms together, having your fingers faced up like you're praying, and drop your head in respect to the person you're greeting.

Citations: CIA Factbook and http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/thailand-country-profile.html and google images: Thailand Culture

Physical Geography: Human Environment Interaction

Thailand participates in fishing and agricultural activities. Thailand's current environmental issues are pollution from vehicle emissions; water pollution from organic and factory waste, deforestation, soil erosion and wild life populations, threatened by illeagal hunting. However, solutions to solve this problem have come up such as trying to switch to solar power. With the problems that are taking place now, it shows that Thailand is still developing due to the pollution but it's getting closer to reaching developed countries.
Citation: http://digitalshowcase.dpsk12.org/ARCHIVE-07/Misc/HIll/Thailand/HEI.html