The
Arakan Mountains (
Arakan Range,
Rakhine Range,
Rakhine Yoma ,
Arakan Yoma,
Rakhine Roma,
Arakan Roma; ) is a mountain range in western
Burma (Myanmar), between the coast of
Rakhine State and the Central Burma Basin, in which flows the
Irrawaddy River. It is the most prominent of a series of parallel ridges that arc through
Assam,
Nagaland,
Mizoram and Burma. The Arakan Mountains run from
Cape Negrais in the south in to the
Manipur State of India in the north. They include the
Naga Hills, the
Chin Hills, and the
Patkai range which includes the
Lushai Hills. These mountains are submerged in
Bay of Bengal for sufficiently long stretch and emerges again in the form of the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands