Mawkmai Township is a

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Langkho District Langhko District, also Langkho District, is a district of the Shan State in Myanmar. It consists of 4 towns in 2010. Townships The district contains the following townships: *Langhko Township Langhko Township or Langkho Township is a township ...

in the

Shan State Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos ( ...

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 ...

. The principal town is Mawkmai. The central portion of the township consists of a wide, well-watered

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on which

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is grown. The rest is chiefly

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with ranges running north and south. Rice is the chief crop, but much

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of good quality is grown in the Langko district on the Tang River. There is also a great deal of

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-breeding.

History

Mawkmai State Mawkmai, also known as Maukme ( my, မောက်မယ်), was a Shan State in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States.dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_242. ...

was one of the former large states in the eastern division of the southern

s of Burma with an area of 7,215 km².

References

Townships of Shan State {{Shan-geo-stub