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Hat Yai

Thailand
Also known as: Haad Yai
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Hat Yai, city on the Malay Peninsula, extreme southern Thailand. It has become a modern, rapidly growing commercial city by virtue of its position on the major road south to Malaysia and on the junction of the eastern and western branches of the Bangkok-Singapore railroad. It also has an international airport. Hat Yai is a centre of the rubber industry and the site of the governmental Rubber Research Centre. Other major items of trade are tin and textiles, especially Thai silks and cottons and Malaysian batik. Pop. (2000) 187,920.

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