Ye is a town in the southern end of Mon State

Mon State

Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Region on the north and Tanintharyi Region on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip. The land area is...

, Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 (Burma). It is the principal town of Ye Township

Ye Township

Ye Township is a township of Mawlamyine District in the Mon State of southern Burma . Its principal town is Ye.-Towns and villages:-External links:* map, 4 August 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit...

 of Mawlamyine District

Mawlamyine District

Mawlamyine District is a district of the Mon State in Myanmar. The capital is Mawlamyine town.-Townships:The district contains the following townships:*Mawlamyine Township*Kyaikmaraw Township*Chaungzon Township*Thanbyuzayat Township*Mudon Township...

. The town is located by the Ye river as it drains into the Gulf of Martaban

Gulf of Martaban

The Gulf of Martaban is an arm of the Andaman Sea in the southern part of Burma. The gulf is named after the port city of Mottama . The Salween Sittaung and Yangon rivers empty into it....

, and is surrounded by Tenasserim Hills

Tenasserim Hills

Tenasserim Hills or Tenasserim Range is the geographical name of a mountain chain in Southeast Asia. Despite their relatively scant altitude these mountains form an effective barrier between Thailand and Burma in their northern and central region, extending to the Kra Isthmus into the Malay...

 in the east. It has a warm, moderate weather. The town's economy is mainly based on betel nut

Betel nut

The Areca nut is the seed of the Areca palm , which grows in much of the tropical Pacific, Asia, and parts of east Africa. It is commonly referred to as "betel nut" as it is often chewed wrapped in betel leaves.-Description:...

, rubber

Rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...

, fishery

Fishery

Generally, a fishery is an entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery. According to the FAO, a fishery is typically defined in terms of the "people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats,...

 production, and trade. Ye is on the Mawlamyaing-Dawei

Dawei

-Transport:Only recently Dawei was connected to the rest of Myanmar by road and rail. There are plans to construct a deepwater port in Dawei. In November 2010, the Myanmar Port Authority signed a USD $8.6 billion deal with Italian-Thai Development to develop a deep sea port at Dawei...

 rail line, and has a seaport. The majority of the people are ethnic Mon people

Mon people

The Mon are an ethnic group from Burma , living mostly in Mon State, Bago Division, the Irrawaddy Delta, and along the southern Thai–Burmese border. One of the earliest peoples to reside in Southeast Asia, the Mon were responsible for the spread of Theravada Buddhism in Burma and Thailand...

. Ye is a center of Mon language

Mon language

The Mon language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon, who live in Burma and Thailand. Mon, like the related language Cambodian—but unlike most languages in Mainland Southeast Asia—is not tonal. Mon is spoken by more than a million people today. In recent years, usage of Mon has...

education.

There was a flood in Aug 2011 after torrent of rain (12.6 inches in 1st Aug 2011). 2,000 houses were flood and some schools and markets were closed because of it.