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Looking at the Area 51 commitment page, I realized that some of the questions that were originally suggested there never got asked here, so I thought I'd add some of them. To expand on this question, was this transition a result of some military action, political influence, or external influences from other countires?

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Thailand converted over from Siam after the revolution of 1932, where the nations military staged a coup against the monarchy and established a constitutional style monarchy (although it ended up being decades of military rule). While there was a brief return to using the Siam moniker after WWII, the new name for the country stuck.

A more detailed version of the Revolution of 1932 can be found here.

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Was the use of the "land" suffix a sort of Westernizing touch (making the name of the country sound like England?) – Felix Goldberg May 2 at 9:53

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