a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949
characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality
representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos
a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais
