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Originally Posted by robuzo by 1912 (I think I remember this correctly) Bangkok was already 50% Chinese. |  I doubt Bangkok was ever nor will it even be 50% Chinese. Having said that, our neighbour back in the early to mid 60's was a gentleman by the name of Benny Wong . . . none of this Thai-ness bullshit. Plain Benny Wong. He owned three houses down soi 12 off Sukhumvit. |
UNHCR | Refworld | World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Thailand : Chinese
During this period Chinese migration increased substantially, so that at the beginning of the twentieth century the Chinese had come to constitute perhaps more than half of the population of the capital, known in the west as Bangkok.
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Today those of Chinese or partial Chinese descent occupy all strata of Thai society, including Thailand's biggest companies outside of the agricultural sphere. More than half live in the Bangkok area and the Chinese population as a whole is largely urbanized.
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If the population of Thailand is roughly 66 million, and 14% are ethnic Chinese (whether or not native speakers of Thai), and more than half of that 14% live in Bangkok, then Bangkok is still more than 50% ethnic Chinese. If you take into account people with one or more ethnic Chinese grandparent, that number would be far higher, I think.