States and Divisions
Tanintharyi Division
Tanintharyi Division, better known by the
old name Tenasserim, is a division of Myanmar, covering the
long narrow southern part of the country on the Kra Isthmus.
It borders the Andaman Sea to the west and Thailand to the
east. To the north is the Mon State. The capital of the
division is Dawei (Tavoy). The other main city is Mergui.
The division covers an area of 43,328 km˛, and in the 1983
census it had a population of 917,628. The division is
sub-divided into 5 districts: Amherst, Mergui, Tavoy, Thaton,
Toungoo. The ISO 3166-2 code for the division is MM-05.
Historically the area belonged to the Burmese kingdom for most
of the time, but was also sometimes a tributary of the Thai
kingdoms of Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. At the end of the First
Burmese War in 1826 Tenasserim became part of the British
colonial empire with the Treaty of Yandaboo. It was then part
of Lower Burma.
With the independence of Burma in 1948 the northeastern part
of Tenasserim became the Karen State (now Kayin State). In
1974 the Mon State was created, taking the northwestern part
of Tenasserim. As the previous capital Moulmein is in the Mon
state, the capital of Tenasserim was moved to Tavoy. In 1989
the division was officially renamed to Tanintharyi.
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Tanintharyi Division
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| Capital |
Dawei (Tavoy) |
| Region |
South |
| Area |
43,328 km˛ |
| Population |
1,327,400 |
| Ethnicities |
Bamar, Rakhine, Mon,
Shan,
Kayin, Salone, Malay |
| Religions |
Buddhism,
Islam
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