Thailand
14.0000°N 101.0000°E · Q869
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Thailand. It sits in Thailand.
It comes from two men's stage billing, and their country has since renamed itself.
Chang and Eng Bunker, born in Siam in 1811 and joined at the chest, toured as the Siamese Twins and later settled as farmers in North Carolina. Siam became Thailand in 1939, and the brothers were of Chinese descent, so the label was loose even when it was coined.
A forward-growing stripe of hair links dogs in Thailand, Vietnam, and Africa.
The dogs were kept in eastern Thailand as guards and hunters for centuries and were barely known abroad until the 1990s. The same reversed ridge appears in the Phu Quoc dog of Vietnam and the Rhodesian Ridgeback, and whether it arose separately or traveled by sea remains unsettled.