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Dawei or Tavoy
in south Myanmar
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This is the capital of Tanintharyi
Division situated on the east bank of the river, 384
kilometers by air from Yangon, the southern most
administrative region in the country adjacent to Mon State to the north and
Thailand to the east.
A long narrow coastal plain bounded by the
Andaman Sea in the west and the Tanintharyi Yomas in the
east which runs to Kawthaung, the most southerly point of Myanmar
adjacent to Ranong in Thailand with Phuket
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The Andaman Sea around
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dotted with hundreds of islands including the Heinze group, the Maung-magan group and
the Myeik or Mergui Archipelago which comprises more than 800 beautiful and
attractive islands. Some of the more familiar ones are the Mali, Thahtay
Kyun, Salone Kyun, Lampi, Pale, Letsutaw, Carrie, Zadetgalay, Zadetgyi, Owen
and Katharine Islands.
The city
is connected to Maung-magan a popular seaside beach resort,
by the 880 meter Kamyawkin Bridge which has shortened the distance to Yangon
by 152 km.
Mining is an important economic activity in Tanintharyi with some 67% of
Myanmar's production of tin and tungsten mined in the division.
Important
mines are Heinda, Harmyingyi, Yawa, Nanthida, Yadanabon,
Kyauknitaung and
Kanbauk. Diamond exploration work has increased in various townships of the
and holds promise.
Ships berth at Maung-magan and
passengers can cross and travel by land
to the city thus avoiding the
extra sea voyage around the Shin Maw
Peninsula.
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Huge tracts of paddy
fields dominate countryside, it's
green everywhere, but people are
real poor. This might change a bit
now since large investment from
Thailand is on the way for the |
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Dawai industrial and deep sea port project
The Myanmar government has granted the right
to develop and use the area to Italian-Thai
Development Public Company ( ITD ). The idea
is to develop a fully-integrated industrial
zone with a deep seaport, a pipeline along
the road to Thailand, highways and railroad
to Thailand’s Kanchanaburi Province. This
will cover an area of 205 square kilometers.
From DDC
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Tanintharyi has a tropical, monsoon
climate with a total annual rainfall
exceeding that of the rest of the
country and average summer and winter
temperatures of 29'C and 25'C
respectively. This is a secondary seaport handling exports of tin, tungsten, rice, rubber,
timber, charcoal and dried areca nuts and is currently developed with the
help of Thailand into a seep sea port
and industrial zone with a road
connection into Thailand.
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The first gas pipeline
from the offshore Yadana Field passes nearby on the
way to Thailand.
Fruits such as those found in Mawlamyine, Mon State,
including durians, rambutans and mangos teens are more abundant in Dawai
or Tavoy Division.
The most venerated pagodas in Dawai
or Tavoy are the Shin Motehti Pagoda, a
few miles south of the town, Shin Datweh Pagoda in the north and Shin Maw
Pagoda on the Dawei promontory. A 243-foot
long reclining |
Dawai -
Tavoy the main road from
Yangon to southern Myanmar |
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Buddha image
occupies the Lawka Tharaphu Pagoda. Natives
speak Bamar language with a peculiar accent of
its own.
In the 18th Century a group of Dawei people
known as Inthas
or Sons of the Lake, migrated to Inle Lake to avoid the continual conflicts between the
Myanmar's and Thais. |
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