Mount Taungnyo is the mountain of the
Tenasserim Range. It is located in
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 ...
,
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
, close to the border with
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
.
The highest point nearby is Sedaung Taung 1,269 meters above sea level, 26.2 km west of Taungnyo Taung. The following mountains are in the Taungnyo Taung parts:
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Kaleiktok Taung
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Lepalaw Taung
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Mezali Taung
Mezali is a village on the Chindwin River in Homalin Township, Hkamti District, in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating / ...
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Sedaung Taung
The temperature averages 21
°C
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. The warmest month is April, averaging 25
°C
The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius scale (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the Kelvin scale. The ...
, and the coldest month is August, averaging 12 °C. The mountain gets 3321 mm of rain per year. On average, the wettest month is August (677 mm) and the driest is December (6 mm).
See also
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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 DensityNASA/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 IndexNASA
"NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month-TRMM)NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission
Peakbagger Taungnyo Taung, Myanmar
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