Tenasserim

Tenasserim (Ta-neng-tha-ri), acquired by Britain after the war in 1825, the southernmost division of Burma (q.v.), is a long narrow strip of territory between the sea and the mountains of the Siamese frontier. Area, 46,590 sq. m.; pop. (1881) 825,741; (1891) 971,660. There are seven districts—the town of Maulmain, Taung-ngu, Schwe-gyin, Salwen, Amherst, Tavoy, and Mergui; the chief towns being Maulmain, Taung-ngu, and Tavoy. The town of Tenasserim, which had, through wars and other misfortunes, sunk to be in 1881 a village of only 577 inhabitants, stands 33 miles from the sea at the junction of the Great and Little Tenasserim rivers, the former of which has a total course of about 400 miles.