Bangkok
About Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 11.4 million people as of 2024, 15.9% of the country's population. Over 17.4 million people live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region as of the 2021 estimate, making Bangkok a megacity and an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy.
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He used to work for a ferry company in Norway. For a string company. He said that he learned if you took a piece of string and ran it along Norway's coastline, you could run it from London to Bangkok and back again. That might have been before there was a recalculation of the coast of Norway by some geographers in 2011. The basic point is that Norway is one of the most complicated coastlines on the planet because it has all these fjords where instead of going straight north to south, it goes in for 100 miles and then out for 100 miles again.
from 171: No Such Thing As A Half-Ape Vampire, 2017-06-30 at 00:24:07 · read transcript
Other times Bangkok came up
It's really frightening when anyone does it. I just got to say. Boeing 747 flying from London to Sydney via Bangkok overran the runway into a bog and it crashed into a radio antenna as it went. There were no serious injuries or fatalities, but the plane was a write-off. At least it would have been for most other, or indeed any other airline.
Little Fish: You've Hit The Nail On the Head, 2026-05-03 · listen
They used to have a gasometer in front of Norfolk Airport right next to the runway. Gasometer is like a huge sort of cylinder that keep natural gas in. There was also one right next to Heathrow. People used to use these things to guide their way into Heathrow Airport. So one time in 1960, an airplane who thought they were landing Heathrow accidentally landed in Northolt. Oh, God. Okay. It's only like a bus ride to get back to Heathrow.
No Such Thing As Lemming Atlantis, 2022-11-11 · listen
Gasometer is like a huge sort of cylinder that keep natural gas in. There was also one right next to Heathrow. People used to use these things to guide their way into Heathrow Airport. So one time in 1960, an airplane who thought they were landing in Heathrow accidentally landed in Norfolk. It's only like a bus ride to get back to Heathrow. They got off.
452: No Such Thing As Lemming Atlantis, 2022-11-11 · listen
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