HOW TO PRONOUNCE
bangkok
/bæŋˈkɑk/
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What does bangkok mean?
noun
- A kind of straw hat.
proper noun
- The capital city of Thailand.
- The government of Thailand.
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IPA pronunciation
/bæŋˈkɑk/
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Over the longer-term, Bangkok must produce more college graduates with technical training and upgrade workers' skills to continue its rapid economic development.
To begin with, he was more than five years older than myself at a time of life when five years really do count, I being twenty-nine and he thirty-four; then, on our first leaving port (I don’t see why I should make a secret of the fact that it was Bangkok), a bit of manoeuvring of mine amongst the islands of the Gulf of Siam had given him an unforgettable scare.