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Kra, Isthmus of (krä), narrow neck of the Malay Peninsula, c.40 mi (60 km) wide, SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand. It has long been the proposed site of a ship canal that would bypass the congested Straits of Malacca. |
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The planned network of four-lane highways fanning outwards from Bangkok and Thailand's Eastern Seaboard (ESB) to major centres in Laos, Vietnam and China is complemented by the proposed Southern Seaboard Project (SSB), comprising a four-lane highway from the west coast near Surat Thani across the Isthmus of Kra to Krabi, with deep water ports as well as industrial and oil storage facilities at each terminus. |
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