Tanintharyi

Tanintharyi Region is an administrative place of Myanmar, overlaying the lengthy slim southern a part of the country. On the Kra Isthmus. It borders the Andaman Sea to the west and the Tenasserim Hills, beyond which lie Thailand, to the east. To the north is the Mon State. There are many islands off the coast, the big Mergui Archipelago inside the southern and vital coastal areas and the smaller Moscos Islands off the northern shorelines. The capital of the department is Dawei. Other important cities consist of Myeik and Kawthaung. The division covers a place of 43,344.9 km², and had a populace of 1,406,434 at the 2014 Census.

Tanintharyi Region historically protected the complete Tanintharyi salient latest Tanintharyi Region, Mon State and southern Kayin State. The northernmost region become part of the Thaton Kingdom before 1057, and the entire shoreline became a part of King Anawrahta's Pagan Empire after 1057. After the autumn of Bagan in 1287, the vicinity fell to the Siamese state of Sukhothai, and later its successor Ayutthaya Kingdom. The place's northernmost border become across the Thanlwin river near present day Mawlamyaing.