Setse(
Burmese
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* Burmese people
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* Burmese (hor ...
: စက်စဲကမ်းခြေ) is a beach resort on the
Gulf of Martaban of the
Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from ...
in
Thanbyuzayat Township, of
Mon State
Mon State ( my, မွန်ပြည်နယ်, ; mnw, တွဵုရးဍုင်မန်, italics=no) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It lies between Kayin State to the east, the Andaman Sea to the west, Bago Region to the ...
, in southern
Myanmar
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 C. Wells, Joh ...
.
[Reid, Robert and Grosberg, Michael (2005) ''Myanmar (Burma)'' (9th edition) Lonely Planet Publications, Footscray, Victoria, Australia]
page 160
The beach itself is composed of brown sand, is quite wide
and about long, but the water is often muddy when currents bring down
silt from the
Salween river which enters the Gulf of Martaban just to the north. Setse has been a resort since the 19th century, and still remains popular.
Mawlamyaing University
Mawlamyine University (also the University of Mawlamyine; my, မော်လမြိုင် တက္ကသိုလ် ), located in Mawlamyine, is the largest university in Mon State, Myanmar. Being established in 1953, Mawlamyine Univers ...
has its Marine Science Laboratory in Setse, which studies commercial uses of algae (seaweed), cultured pearl techniques, and produces commercial
agar-agar.
[ Ministry of Information ''Myanmar, facts and figures 2002'' Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar, Yangon (Rangoon), Burma, page 45, ] Agar jellies are commonly used in traditional Myanmar desserts and other Asian culinary.
Notes
External links
"Setse Map – Satellite Images of Setse"Maplandia World Gazetteer
Populated places in Mon State
Beaches of Myanmar
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