Mount Zwegabin (Kwekabaw) (
Phlone: ; my, ဇွဲကပင်တောင်; ) is a mountain in
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
. It is located in
Kayin State
Kayin State ( my, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်, ; kjp, ဖၠုံခါန်ႋကၞင့်, italics=no; ksw, ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်, ), also known by the endonyms Kawthoolei and Karen State, is a state of Myanmar. The ...
, in the southern part of the country, around 450 km south of the capital
Naypyidaw
Naypyidaw, officially spelled Nay Pyi Taw (; ), is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory. It is unusual among Myanmar's cities, as it is an entirely planned city o ...
. The top of Zwegabin is above sea level.
The terrain around Mount Zwegabin is flat to the north-west, but hilly to the south-east. Calculated from the variance of all elevation data (DEM 3 ") from Viewfinder Panoramas, within 10 kilometers radius.
Mount Zwegabin is the highest point in the region. The area around Mount Zwegabin, is quite densely populated, with 155 inhabitants per square kilometer. The closest major city is
Hpa-an, 8.2 km northwest of Mount Zwegabin. The surroundings around the mountains are a mosaic of
agricultural land
Agricultural land is typically land ''devoted to'' agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans. It is generally synonymous with ...
and natural vegetation.
See also
*
Saddan Cave
*
List of mountains in Myanmar
References
External links
"Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model"(2015-6-21).
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Geonames.org]; mail updated 2016-06-01; database download downloaded 2016-10-22
"NASA Earth Observations: Population DensityNASA/SEDAO
"NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification"NASA/MODES
*Peel, M C; Finlayson, B
"Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification "Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11: p. 1633–1644.
"NASA Earth Observations Data set IndexNASA
"NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month-TRMM)NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission
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