when did siam become thailand
On June 23, 1939, Siam was renamed Thailand. The government claimed that it was better to call their country the name of the majority ethnic group (Thai), in turn, distancing the country from its past.hailand shares borders with Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Malaysia. Thailand controls the only land route from Asia to Malaysia and Singapore. Across the the Gulf of Thailand is Vietnam, and across Andaman Sea are Indonesia and India.