Comprising the northern portion of the ‘trunk of the elephant’ on a map of Thailand, the Kra Isthmus is the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula providing the shortest distance between the Gulf Of Siam and the country of Burma. It played three different roles in the 1941-1945 history of Thailand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kra_Isthmus DEC 1941 Nearly … Continue reading 8.16 Kra Isthmus