Mongkung State
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This article is about the former Shan princely state. For the present-day administrative division, see Mong Kung Township. For the town, see Mong Kung.
Mongkung (also spelt Möngküng), also known as Maingkaing (Burmese: မိုင်းကိုင်), was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States. Its capital was Mong Kung, in the valley of the Nam Teng. The largest minority were Palaung people.
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Mongkung (Möngküng) | |||||||||
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State of the Shan States | |||||||||
1835–1959 | |||||||||
Möng Kung State in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map | |||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 2,650 km2 (1,020 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 30,482 | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• State founded | 1835 | ||||||||
• Abdication of the last Saopha | 1959 | ||||||||
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