Gaungphat Taung or Mount Khonphan ( my, ခုံဘမ်းတောင်) is a mountain in Myanmar. It is located in the
Kayin State
Kayin State ( my, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်, ; kjp, ဖၠုံခါန်ႋကၞင့်, italics=no; ksw, ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်, ), also known by the endonyms Kawthoolei and Karen State, is a state of Myanmar. The ca ...
, in the southern part of the country, 500 km south of the capital
Nay Pyi Taw
Naypyidaw, officially spelled Nay Pyi Taw (; ), is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory. It is unusual among Myanmar's cities, as it is an entirely planned city out ...
. The top of Gaungphat Taung is 92 meters above sea level.
The terrain around Gaungphat Taung is mainly flat, but south is the hilly. The highest point nearby is 746 meters above sea level, 13.0 km south of Gaungphat Taung. Around Gaungphat Taung, it is sparsely populated, with 9 inhabitants per square kilometer. The surroundings around Gaungphat Taung are a mosaic of
farmland
Agricultural land is typically land ''devoted to'' agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans. It is generally synonymous with bot ...
and natural vegetation.
Tropical monsoon climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ...
prevails in the area. The average annual temperature in the neighborhood is 25 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is 29 °C, and the coldest is June, at 19 °C. Average yearly
average
In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7, ...
is 3 257 millimeters. The rainy month is August, with an average of 687 mm
rainfall
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides water f ...
, and the driest is December, with 7 mm rainfall.
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See also
*List of mountains in 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
External links
"Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model"
(2015-6-21).
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Geonames.org]; mail updated 2016-06-01; database download downloaded 2016-10-22
"NASA Earth Observations: Population Density
NASA/SEDAO
"NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification"
NASA/MODES
*Peel, M C; Finlayson, B
"Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification "
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11: p. 1633–1644.
"NASA Earth Observations Data set Index
NASA
"NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month-TRMM)
NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission
Kayin State
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