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A Thai worker loads packs of clothes on a Thai Tuk-tuk at shopping mall in Bangkok on May 20, 2013. Thailand's economy shrank 2.2 percent in the three months to March from the previous quarter -- the first contraction in more than a year -- as manufacturing output fell, official data showed.

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About Bangkok

Bangkok, officially known as Krung Thep and always used in Thai (กรุงเทพฯ (help·info)), is the capital and largest city of Thailand, with an official 2000 census population of 6,355,144. Bangkok is located at 13°45′N 100°31′E, on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, near the Gulf of Thailand.

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