Title: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Content: Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States, on 5 December 1927. He was the youngest son of Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, the Prince of Songkla, and his commoner wife Mom Sangwan (later Princess Srinagarindra, the Princess Mother). His father was enrolled in the public health program at Harvard University, which is why Bhumibol was the only monarch to be born in the US. Bhumibol had an older sister, Princess Galyani Vadhana, and an older brother, Prince Ananda Mahidol. Bhumibol came to Thailand in 1928, after his father obtained a certificate from Harvard. His father died of kidney failure in September 1929, when

Title: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Content: Bhumibol's U.S. birth certificate reads simply "Baby Songkla", as the parents had to consult his uncle, King Rama VII (Prajadhipok), then head of the House of Chakri, for an auspicious name. The king chose a name of Sanskrit origin, "Bhumibol Adulyadej" (Devanagari: भूमिबल अतुल्यतेज, : "Bhūmibala Atulyateja"), a compound of "Bhūmi" (भूमि), meaning "Land"; "Bala" (बल), meaning "Strength" or "Power"; "Atulya" (अतुल्य), meaning "Incomparable"; and "Tej" (तेज), meaning "Power". Thus, "Bhūmibala Atulyateja", or "Bhumibol Adulyadej" as it is transliterated in Thai, literally means "Strength of the Land, Incomparable Power". Bhumibol was born at Cambridge Hospital (now Mount Auburn Hospital) in

Title: Srinagarindra
Content: a mystery that is not discussed within Thailand. On the same day as King Ananda Mahidol's death, by parliament’s unanimous decision, Prince Bhumibol Adulyadej, was invited to accede to the throne as King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand, the ninth monarch of the Chakri Dynasty On 19 August 1946, the princess mother accompanied the new king back to Switzerland, where he resumed his studies at the University of Lausanne. He switched his choice of subjects from science to political science, law and economics, in order to better suit his new priorities. On 4 October 1948, King Bhumibol Adulyadej was

Title: Mahidol Adulyadej
Content: born in London in 1923. He returned to Thailand in the same year to take the position of Director-General of the University Department in the Ministry of Education. Apart from his administrative duties, he also taught pre-clinical medical students at the Royal Medical College. In 1925 he went to Heidelberg, Germany to have his kidneys treated before going back to his alma mater Harvard University, this time to study medicine. It was in Heidelberg where his first son Prince Ananda Mahidol was born in the same year. His youngest son Prince Bhumibol was born in Massachusetts in 1927; six months

Title: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Content: months in 1938. In 1942, Bhumibol became a jazz enthusiast, and started to play the saxophone, a passion that he kept throughout his life. He received the "baccalauréat des lettres" (high-school diploma with a major in French literature, Latin, and Greek) from the Gymnase Classique Cantonal of Lausanne, and by 1945 had begun studying sciences at the University of Lausanne, when World War II ended and the family was able to return to Thailand. Bhumibol ascended the throne following the death by gunshot wound of his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, on 9 June 1946, under circumstances that remain unclear. While

Question: US-born Adulyadej Bhumibol became king of which Asian country?
Answer: Thailand