Thaton is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains. History Thaton was a center for a Mon kingdom which stretched from the Ayeyarwady delta region to as far east as Cambodia. Like the Burmese and the Thais, some modern Mons have tried to identify their ethnicity and, specifically this kingdom at Thaton, with the semi-historical kingdom of Suwarnabhumi ("The Golden Land"); today, this claim is contested by many different ethnicities in Southeast Asia, and contradicted by… (More on Thaton)