Kawkareik

Kawkareik (Burmese:ကော့ကရိတ်) is a town in the Kayin State of south Burma. It is the capital of Kawkareik District.
The Kawkareik Pass across the Tenasserim Hills is named after this town. The Pass was the access route from Thailand used by the Japanese Fifteenth Army, consisting of two infantry divisions under Lieutenant General Shōjirō Iida, when it invaded the southern Burmese province of Tenasserim (now Tanintharyi Region) in January 1942.