Southern Thailand

Southern Thailand connects to 2015 places across 22 topics through 117 Bunkabop connections, with history, government, and cuisine as its dominant threads. It shares many connections with neighboring Malaysia, China, and Indonesia, reflecting the peninsula's layered trading and political past. The deep south historically belonged to the Malay sultanates of Pattani and Kedah before coming under Bangkok's control. Language ties also run through the region; Surat Thani is the sole province where the native place name is in the Central Thai language.