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Also known as the City of Angels (Krung Thep), it is entirely appropriate that Bangkok should have two names. Firstly there is the modern, cosmopolitan side, with its Skytrain zipping people between swanky malls, cinema multiplexes, world-class restaurants, glitzy clubs and some of the world's best hotels. This area rivals other modern cities, absorbing as it does the latest of both East and West, with its new subway and the world's most recent international airport. But it's the ancient city ..[Read More]
Bangkok, Thailand Factoid
What's in a name? In the case of Bangkok, two names, and the one in common use until 1972 had nearly 300 letters, depending on the translation. The city government eventually shortened the name to Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, and most Thais just call it Krung Thep, City of Angels. King Rama I founded Bangkok, the village of the wild plum trees, across the river from older Thonburi in 1782, because it would be safer from attacks from Burma on the east side of the Chao Phraya River.