Sangpang Bum is one of the highest mountains of the
Northern Triangle
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of Burma. It is located in the
Sagaing Region
Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...
,
Burma
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.
With a height of 2,692 m and a prominence of 1,655 m, Sangpang Bum is one of the
ultra prominent peak
An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fro ...
s of
Southeast Asia
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Peakbagger - Sangpang Bum, Myanmar
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See also
* Northern Triangle temperate forest
*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 ...
*List of Ultras of Southeast Asia
This is a list of all the ultra-prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Mainland Southeast Asia. All values below are given in metres.
Patkai-Chin Hills
Indo-Malayan System
Malay Peninsula
Annamite Range ...
References
External links
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Google Books, ''The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia''
Sagaing Region
Mountains of Myanmar
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