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
Burma
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on the
border
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with
Thailand
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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
Kra Isthmus
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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
ultra prominent peak
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s of
Southeast Asia
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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 tropical rain forest
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. Usually the western mountainsides are more heavily forested than the eastern for they receive heavier monsoon
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rains.
See also
*List of mountains of Burma
The following is a list of mountains in Myanmar (Burma). The elevations are in metres. For the names of the mountains in the Latin script the most common transcription has been adopted.
Note:
Many mountains in the country are important not b ...
References
Tenasserim Hills
Mountain ranges of Myanmar
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