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| topo = }}The Kra Isthmus (, {{IPA-th|kʰɔ̄ː kʰɔ̂ːt kràʔ|pron}}; ) in Thailand is the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula.WEB,weblink Kra, Isthmus of, Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press, 14 April 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150924121950weblink">weblink 24 September 2015, 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 the Andaman Sea and to the east by the Gulf of Thailand.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}The Kra Isthmus marks the boundary between two sections of the mountain chain which runs from Tibet through the Malay peninsula. The southern part is the Phuket Range, which is a continuation of the Tenasserim Hills, extending further northwards for over {{convert|400|km|abbr=on}} beyond the Three Pagodas Pass.Gupta, A. The Physical Geography of Southeast AsiaThe Kra Isthmus is in the Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests ecoregion. Dipterocarps are the dominant trees in the ecoregion.Wikramanayake, Eric; Eric Dinerstein; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (2002). Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Pacific War

On 8 December 1941 local time, the Imperial Japanese army landed in Songkhla, invading Thailand. Because of the International Date Line, this actually occurred hours before the 7 December (Hawaii time) attack on Pearl Harbor, making it the first major action of the Pacific War. The Japanese forces then moved south towards Perlis and Penang as part of the Malayan campaign, which culminated in the capture of Singapore.WEB, Parfitt, Allen,weblink Bicycle Blitzkreig [sic] The Japanese Conquest of Malaya and Singapore 1941-1942, MilitaryHistoryOnline.com, 9 Aug 2012, 28 October 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20151028204234weblink">weblink dead,

Kra Canal

The Thai Canal is a long-standing proposal to join the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea.WEB,weblink Thai Canal Project: Over 300 years of conceptualising and still counting, Griffith University, 23 March 2010, Asian Correspondent, Hybrid News, 14 April 2013, 26 May 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130526212445weblink">weblink dead, Various routes were proposed{{citation|title=Singapore: Unlikely Power|last=Perry|first=John Curtis|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-046950-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnuuDQAAQBAJ&dq=Edward+O'Riley+burma&pg=PA77}} to shortcut voyages from India to China, avoiding the Straits of Malacca. The northernmost route was championed by Edward O'Riley (1821-1856), a government official in Burma, and Henry Wise, in England, when it was the subject of a report to the British Parliament in 1859 by Consul Robert Schomburk from Bangkok.1859 Session 2 [2572] Despatch relative to the projected ship-canal across the Isthmus of Kraa (sic.) A later crossing is related by LoftusBOOK, Loftus, Alfred John, Notes of a journey across the Isthmus of Krà, 1883,weblink

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