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Chao Phraya River
The Chao Phraya is the main river of central Thailand, formed at Nakhon Sawan by the meeting of the Ping and the Nan and flowing south past Ayutthaya and Bangkok into the Gulf of Thailand. Its fertile flood plain supported the Dvaravati towns, Lavo and Suphannaphum, and the successive Thai capitals of Ayutthaya, Thonburi and Bangkok, whose wealth rested on rice and on trade carried along the river.
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