Thailand is located in South East Asia and is bordered to the north by Laos and
Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and
Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar.
After 700 years of absolute monarchy Thailand became a Constitutional monarchy in
1932. In the 75 years since then the country has been ruled by a series of military
government interspersed with short periods in office by elected governments. There have
been numerous constitutional changes, the most recent of them in July 2007 despite
public controversy of several clauses as being regressive. This 2007 Constitution replaced
the “People’s Constitution” of 1997.