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Isthmus of Kra

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Isthmus of Kra , narrow neck of the Malay Peninsula, c.40 mi (60 km) wide, SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand. It has long been the proposed site of a ship canal that would bypass the congested Straits of Malacca. Author not available, KRA, ISTHMUS OF. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Bilauktaung
, mountain range, extending c.250 mi (400 km) along the Thailand-Myanamar border from the Dawna Range SE to the Isthmus of Kra. The western slopes of the range, which receive the heavy rains of the monsoon, have a dense covering of tropical rain forest. Read more
Malay Peninsula
...west and the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea on the east. It stretches south for c.700 mi (1,100 km) from the Isthmus of Kra, where it is narrowest, to Singapore. The northern part of the peninsula forms a part of Thailand; the southern part... Read more

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