a town and district of the Birman empire. The district extends along the sea-coast, from the eleventh to the fourteenth degrees of north latitude. A connected barrier of islands, extending 135 miles from north to south, with a strait between them and the mainland from fifteen to thirty miles broad, protects the west coast from the south-west monsoon. The capital of the province is of the same name. It was taken in 1759 from the Siamese, by Alompra, and was then large and populous; but is now almost a heap of ruins. Long. 98. 50. E. Lat. 11. 42. N.