Bilauktaung is a subrange of the

Tenasserim Hills The Tenasserim Hills or Tenasserim Range ( my, တနင်္သာရီ တောင်တန်း, ; th, ทิวเขาตะนาวศรี, , ; ms, Banjaran Tanah Seri/Banjaran Tenang Sari) is the geographical name of a r ...

. It is located in

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on the

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with

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. It extends from the

Dawna Range The Dawna Range (; th, ทิวเขาถนนธงชัยตะวันตก, ทิวเขาดอยมอนกุจู), also known as Dawna Hills, is a mountain range in eastern Burma and northwestern Thailand. Its northern e ...

for about 400 km along the frontier area to the

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Geography

The Bilauktaung includes

Myinmoletkat Taung Myinmoletkat Taung is the highest mountain in Myanmar Tanintharyi Region. Located on the Bilauktaung, Tenasserim Hills, Burma. Geography It is located in the Tanintharyi Region, to the southeast of Myinmoletkat village, west from the border wi ...

2,072 m, the highest point of the northern section of the Tenasserim range, and, with a prominence of 1,857 m, one of the

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s of

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. Other peaks are 1,531 m high Ngayanni Kyauk Taung, 1,455 m high Palan Taung and 992 m high

Baulu Taung Baulu Taung is a mountain of the Tenasserim Hills, Burma. Geography Baulu Taung is located southeast of Myinmoletkat Taung, the main Bilauktaung peak, in a wooded and largely uninhabited area of the Tanintharyi Region, 9 km to the west of t ...

, among other similarly high summits. The whole Bilauktaung is sparsely inhabited and covered with thick

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. Usually the western mountainsides are more heavily forested than the eastern for they receive heavier

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rains.

References

Tenasserim Hills Mountain ranges of Myanmar {{myanmar-geo-stub

Geography

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