Tanintharyi region
Coordinates: 12 ° 27 ' N , 99 ° 5' E
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တ နင်္ သာ ရီ တိုင်း Tanintharyi region |
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| Capital | Tavoy |
| surface | 43,344.91 km² |
| population | 1,408,101 (2014) |
| Population density | 32.5 inhabitants per km² |
| ethnicities |
Bamar , Karen , Mon , Rakhine , Shan and Salon |
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The Tanintharyi region ( Burmese တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး , BGN / PCGN : taninthayidaingdethagyi ; Tenasserim until 1989 , Tanintharyi Division until 2008 ; Malay tanassari ) is one of the 15 administrative units in Myanmar (Burma).
Location and settlement
Tanintharyi forms an elongated, wooded coastal land on the Isthmus of Kra in Lower Burma and lies on the Andaman Sea . To the east, the Tenasserim Mountains rise up to 1,600 meters, which form a natural border with Thailand .
The Tanintharyi region covers an area of 43,345 km². With a population of 1,408,101 (2014 census), the population density is 32.5 inhabitants per km².
The population is made up of members of the ethnic groups of the Bamar , Karen , Mon , Rakhaing , Shan and Salon.
The largest city is Myeik (Mergui) with 173,317 inhabitants, followed by the capital Tavoy (137,000). Myeik and Kawthaung (formerly: Victoria Point ), located at the southern tip of the Tanintharyi region opposite the Thai city of Ranong , are starting points for tourism in the island world of the Mergui Archipelago in the Andaman Sea.
Major rivers are Dawei, Tanintharyi and Lenya.
structure
The Tanintharyi region is divided into the three districts of Dawei , Myeik and Kawthoung .
economy
- Wood industry ( teak forests )
- Palm oil production
- Natural gas -Promoting
history
In the course of history, the coastal region mostly belonged to Burma, but was also part of the Thai kingdoms Sukhothai (under Ramkhamhaeng ) and Ayutthaya . King Ramathibodi I allowed the Portuguese to set up a trading post in Tenasserim at the beginning of the 16th century . It was not until 1759 that Tenasserim was regained for Burma by King Alaungpaya .
In 1826 the Burmese had to cede Tenasserim to the British in the Treaty of Yandabu ; the division was incorporated into British India . At that time it comprised six districts: Amherst, Tavoy, Mergui, Taungu, Schwegjin and Saluen, together around 120,000 km² and almost 1 million inhabitants (as of 1891). 1930–1932 was the focus of the Saya-San uprising in the region .
With Burma's independence in 1948, the northeast of Tenasserims became an independent territory of the Karen and has been called the Kayin State since 1989 . In 1974 Tenasserim also had to cede the northwest in favor of a separate Mon state and thereby also lost its previous capital, Mawlamyaing . The capital of Tenasserim has been Dawei since then ( Tavoy since 1989 ).
Tenasserim was not freely accessible from the country's independence until 2014.
Web links
- Tanintharyi Division . myanmars.net (English); with map of the area
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: The Union Report
- ↑ Brockhaus 14. A., Vol. 15. (1908)
