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The Kra Isthmus marks the boundary between two sections of the mountain chain which runs from Tibet through the Malay peninsula. The southern part is the Phuket Range , which is a continuation of the Tenasserim Hills , extending further northwards for over 400 km (250 mi) beyond the Three Pagodas Pass .
The width of the Kra Isthmus at its minimum is only 44 km (27 mi), but the height of the intervening hills is 75 m (246 ft). The Panama Canal has a length of 77 km (48 mi), but highest point at the Culebra Cut was only 64 m (210 ft). The Panama Canal passes this point at a height of 12 m (39 ft) (canal bottom) and 26 m (85 ft) (water line ...
The Kra Isthmus railway was a rail line constructed for Imperial Japan during World War II linking Chumphon to Kra Buri in Thailand. [1] The railroad connected the Bangkok-Singapore Line westward to the west coast of the Kra Isthmus near Victoria Point . [1] [2] Sir Andrew Gilchrist wrote a harrowing account of worker conditions.
The Phuket Range is a continuation of the greater Tenasserim range, forming one of the southern sections of the central Indo-Malay cordillera, the mountain chain which runs from Tibet through the Malay Peninsula extending southwards for over 200 km. [1] The Nakhon Si Thammarat Range begins 60 km to the east of the southern part of the Phuket Range.
Phang Nga Bay (Thai: อ่าวพังงา, RTGS: ao phangnga [ʔàːw pʰāŋ.ŋāː]) is a 400 km 2 (150 sq mi) bay in the Andaman Sea between the island of Phuket and the mainland of the Kra Isthmus of southern Thailand. Since 1981, an extensive section of the bay has been protected as the Ao Phang Nga National Park.
The provincial slogan is, "Kra Isthmus, mountain grass, cashew nut, mineral water stream, and real pearl of Ranong." [15] The provincial tree is the Banaba (Lagerstroemia speciosa), and the provincial flower is the orchid Dendrobium formosum. The endemic terrestrial crab Phricotelphusa sirindhorn is the provincial aquatic life.
The Kra Isthmus — on the upper Malay Peninsula in Thailand and southern Myanmar. Pages in category "Kra Isthmus" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
This list of isthmuses is an appendix to the article isthmus.The list is sorted by the region of the world in which the isthmus is located. An isthmus (/ ˈ ɪ s θ m ə s / or / ˈ ɪ s m ə s /; plural: isthmuses, or occasionally isthmi; from Ancient Greek: ἰσθμός, romanized: isthmos, lit.