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Hainan. / 19.2°N 109.7°E / 19.2; 109.7. Hainan [a] is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. It is the southernmost province of China, and the name means "south of the sea", reflecting ...
The Kra Isthmus ( Thai: คอคอดกระ, pronounced [kʰɔ̄ː kʰɔ̂ːt kràʔ]; Malay: Segenting Kra) in Thailand is the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. [1] The western part of the isthmus belongs to Ranong Province and the eastern part to Chumphon Province, both in Southern Thailand. The isthmus is bordered to the west by ...
Pseudocalotes khaonanensis Chan-ard, Cota, Makchai & Laoteaw, 2008 – Nakhon Si Thammarat, peninsular Thailand Pseudocalotes kingdonwardi ( M.A. Smith , 1935) – Kingdonward's bloodsucker Pseudocalotes microlepis (Boulenger, 1888) – northern Tenasserim , Burma , northern and western Thailand, northern Laos , and southern China – Burmese ...
Thai Canal. The Thai Canal, also known as Kra Canal or Kra Isthmus Canal, is any of several proposals for a canal that would connect the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea across the Kra Isthmus in southern Thailand. Such a canal would significantly reduce travel times through heavily-navigated trade routes.
A peninsula is generally defined as a piece of land surrounded on most sides by water. [5] [9] A peninsula may be bordered by more than one body of water, and the body of water does not have to be an ocean or a sea. [10] A piece of land on a very tight river bend or one between two rivers is sometimes said to form a peninsula, for example in ...
History of Thailand. The Tai ethnic group migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of centuries. The word Siam ( Thai: สยาม RTGS : Sayam) may have originated from Pali ( suvaṇṇabhūmi, "land of gold"), Sanskrit श्याम ( śyāma, "dark"), or Mon ရာမည ( rhmañña, "stranger"), with likely the same root as ...
Shandong Peninsula is the largest peninsula in China. Stretching into the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, it is 290 kilometers long from east to west, 190 kilometers wide from north to south, and 50 kilometers narrow. The total area of Shandong Peninsula is 73,000 square kilometers. Geologically it was once connected to the Korean Peninsula and ...
