Bilu Island ( my, ဘီလူးကျွန်း; mnw, တေကာ့ခမိုင်း; Bilu Kyun, lit. "ogre island") is a
Deltaic island of
Salween(Thanlwin) River in
Chaungzon Township,
Mon State
Mon State ( my, မွန်ပြည်နယ်, ; mnw, တွဵုရးဍုင်မန်, italics=no) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It lies between Kayin State to the east, the Andaman Sea to the west, Bago Region to the ...
, located west of
Mawlamyine
Mawlamyine (also spelled Mawlamyaing; , ; th, เมาะลำเลิง ; mnw, မတ်မလီု, ), formerly Moulmein, is the fourth-largest city in Myanmar (Burma), ''World Gazetteer'' south east of Yangon and south of Thaton, at t ...
.
The island is roughly the size of
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borderin ...
, and inhabited by 200,000 people.
On 8 February 2015, the Mon State government began a construction project to build a bridge, the
Bogyoke Aung San bridge, to connect Mawlamyine's Mupun jetty to Bilu Island's Ka-nyaw village, the first to be constructed.
The project, which is estimated to cost , will be constructed by a Japan-Burma joint venture.
Bilu Island is not connected to the national electricity grid.
The people in this island depend on some interesting home industries such as black boards for schools, rubber bands, cane products, wooden pipes, pencils, pens and tobacco.
References
Islands of Myanmar
Populated places in Mon State
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