Hsi Hseng or Hsi-hseng ( my, ဆီဆိုင်မြို့) ( blk, ဝေင်ꩻသီႏသဲင်ႏ(ဝေင်ꩻသထွုံႏပေႏ)) is a town in the
Shan State
Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the Endonym and exonym, endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. ...
of eastern
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
. It is located in
Hsi Hseng Township
Hsi Hseng Township ( my, ဆီဆိုင်မြို့နယ်, also spelt Hsihseng) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA con ...
in
Taunggyi District
Taunggyi District ( my, တောင်ကြီးခရိုင်) is a district of Shan State in Burma. The principal town and administrative center is Taunggyi. This district has 12 towns and 3001 villages.
Popular tourist sites, Inle Lake ...
and lies along
National Highway 5. It is connected to
Loisawn in the north and
Tongkaw in the south. The area is a known producer of
opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: ''Lachryma papaveris'') is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which i ...
and
methamphetamine; poppy fields and a methamphetamine factory have been reported in Hsi Hseng.
Gee Dong was killed near Hsi Hseng in 1974.
Although sources differ, Hsi Hseng is also considered to be the town where
Pa'O musician Khun Thar Doon was murdered in 1978 by Pa'O communists.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Taunggyi District
Township capitals of Myanmar
Hsi Hseng Township
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