Arakan fold belt (Bay of Bengal) located at the west piedmont of Indo-Burma Ranges, comprising a series of NNW-SSE-trending anticlines, its structural characteristics is very poorly studied. Integration of well data and 2D seismic reflection profiles are used to study the late Cenozoic structural characteristics of Arakan fold belt, focusing on the characteristics of detachment levels and geometry and kinematics of anticlines. Arakan fold belt is characterized by consisting of multiple detachment levels: (1) basal detachment level, which situated at about 6.5 s (Two-way traveltime); (2) intermediate detachment levels, which situated at the bottom of Quaternary or underlying upper Miocene at about 2.5 s. Those detachment levels generate two sets of detachment folds under regional compression. The basal detachments level controlled the development of Arakan fold belt, while the intermediate detachment level affected the deformation locally. The deformation time recorded by growth strata showed that the deformation of Arakan fold belt propagated from east to west with the leading edge formed in Quaternary. Based on structural analysis results we proposed two end-member kinematic models for folding in Arakan fold belt. Model 1 without intermediate detachment level, detachment fold formed above basal detachment level; Model 2 with intermediate detachment level, two sets of detachment folds developed above basal and intermediate detachment levels, respectively. The wavelength of anticline in Model 2 is much shorter than that of Model 1, therefore, the wavelength of anticline can be used to judge whether intermediate detachment level developed or not in deformed strata pile. The geometry and kinematics of anticline is primarily controlled by underlying detachment level(s), the formation of overlapping anticlines or anticline bifurcation in Arakan fold belt would imply the underlying detachment level(s) changed along strike. Fluid overpressure could be an important deformation controlling factor in formation of Arakan fold belt.