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Momeik
Momeik (), also known as Möng Mit (), is a town situated on the Shweli River in northern Shan State. It is the capital of Mongmit District and the principal town of Mongmit Township, Myanmar. Transport It is connected by road to Mogok and its ruby mines, and via Mogok to Mandalay, and to Kyaukme (Shan State), Kyaukme which is on the Mandalay-Lashio railway line. Momeik is also linked to Myitkyina, capital of Kachin State via Mabein and Bhamo. There is an airport for domestic flights to Momeik. Whereas Mogok lies at an elevation of , Momeik is just above sea level and to the north of Mogok. by road to the west of Mogok lies Twinnge Village and the town of Thabeikkyin on the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy). There is now a direct road linking Twinnge with Momeik. History Möng Mit was founded in 1238. Thirteen villages of the Mogok Stone Tract were given to Möng Mit in 1420 as a reward for helping Yunnan raid Chiang Mai. In 1465, Nang Han Lung, the daughter-in-law of the Chao P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongmit District
Mongmit District, also known as Momeik District (), is district in northern Shan State, Myanmar created by decree in 2015; which was formerly part of Kyaukme District. Its administrative center is the city of Momeik. Administrative divisions The District has the following townships * Mongmit Township * Mabein Township Notes Districts of Myanmar Geography of Shan State {{ShanState-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shweli River
Shweli River (; zh, 瑞丽江) is a river in China and Myanmar (Burma). Also known as the Nam Mao (; ) in Shan or Dai, and Ruili River or Longchuan River (龙川江) in Chinese, it forms 26 km of the boundary between Burma and China. It is one of the tributaries of Myanmar's chief river, the Ayeyarwady, and originates in Yunnan Province of China. It flows through northern Shan state and Sagaing Division, and enters the Ayeyarwady at Inywa, north of Tagaung and south of Katha. History Dai people, known as Shan in Burma, migrated from Yunnan into Burma along the Shweli. Maw Shans from Mong Mao settled in the Shweli valley, and raided and invaded the Bamar heartlands down the Shweli, some people believe that King Anawrahta of Bagan (1044–1077) reduced Mong Mao to a vassal state. But the event is that when the Anawrahta visited Nanzhao in quest of the Buddha's tooth while returning, married Sao-Môn-la, a daughter of the Mong Mao king. But there is nothing to show that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongmit Township
Mongmit Township ( Shan: မိူင်းမိတ်ႈ) is a township of Mongmit District (formerly part of Kyaukme District) in the Shan State Shan State (, ; , ) is a administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos (Louang Namtha Province, Louang Namtha and Bokeo Provinces) to the east, and Thailand (Chiang Rai Province, Chia ..., Myanmar. The principal town is Mongmit (also spelt Momeik). References Townships of Shan State {{Shan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabein
Mabein (; , ''Manpeng'') is a town in northern Shan State of Myanmar, formerly Burma. It is situated on the Shweli River and connected to Momeik, and to Bhamo and Myitkyina in Kachin State by road. Mabein lies only from the border with Yunnan Province, China, but north of Mandalay. The town was captured by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) from the State Administration Council (SAC) on 21 January 2024 during the civil war. Economy Mabein is a major rice producing area in the Shweli basin. Teak extracted from forests around Mabein is classified as Medium Good. Mabein Township is considered poppy - free by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in the Opium Survey 2002, and in the World Drug Report 2005 published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Gold deposits exist in the Mabein region within the 500 km2 Shante gold belt within the Mogok metamorphics north and north-east of Mandalay. In January 2004, the military gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shan State
Shan State (, ; , ) is a administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos (Louang Namtha Province, Louang Namtha and Bokeo Provinces) to the east, and Thailand (Chiang Rai Province, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai Province, Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son Provinces) to the south, and five administrative divisions of Myanmar in the west (Kachin State, Mandalay Region, Kayin State, Kayah State, and Sagaing Region). The largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km2, almost a quarter of the total area of Myanmar. The state gets its name from the Burmese name for the Tai peoples: "Shan people". The Tai (Shan) constitute the majority among several ethnic groups that inhabit the area. Shan State is largely rural, with only three cities of significant size: Lashio, Kengtung, and the capital, Taunggyi. Taunggyi is northeast of the nation's capital Naypyitaw. The Shan state, with many ethnic groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogok
Mogok (, ; Shan language, Shan: , ) is a town of around 90,000 people in the Thabeikkyin District of Mandalay Region of Myanmar, located north of Mandalay and north-east of Shwebo, Sagaing, Shwebo. History Mogok is believed to be founded in 1217 by three lost Shan hunters who discovered rubies at the base of a collapsed mountain later known as Kyee Arr Taung. According to the oral history, the hunters returned to their home in Momeik and offered the precious stones to the local Chao Pha, saopha who established a village in what would become modern-day Mogok. Following the 1885 Third Anglo-Burmese War when the British conquered and annexed the hither to independent Upper Burma, in 1886 the British launched a military expedition to "open up" the ruby mines at Mogok and make them available to British merchants. George Skelton Streeter, a gem expert and son of Edmund Streeter of the Streeters & Co Ltd jewellery company in London, accompanied the expedition and stayed there to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Myanmar
Districts (; ) are the second-level administrative divisions of Myanmar. They are the subdivisions of the administrative divisions of Myanmar, regions and states of Myanmar. Districts are in turn are subdivided into Townships of Myanmar, townships, then towns, wards and villages. Prior to 2022, there were 76 districts in Myanmar. The number of districts was expanded to a total of 121 on 30 April 2022 through Notification 319/2022 through 333/2022 under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Myanmar), Ministry of Home Affairs with the most new districts going to Shan State and Yangon Region. The district's role is more supervisory as the townships of Myanmar, townships are the basic administrative unit of local governance. A district is led by a district administrator, a civil servant appointed through the General Administration Department, General Administration Department (GAD) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Myanmar), Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA). The minister of ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyaukme (Shan State)
Kyaukme ( ) is a town in northern Shan State of Burma. It is situated on the Mandalay - Lashio road, after Pyin Oo Lwin and Nawnghkio, and before Hsipaw, on what is now the Mandalay - Muse road, part of the Asian Highway route 14 (AH14). It is also connected to Momeik (Mongmit) in the Shweli River valley and Mogok with its ruby mines. Kyaukme can be reached by train on the Mandalay-Lashio railway line. As of 2014, the population was 39,930. History During the Second World War, the B-25s and P-47s of the USAAF Tenth Air Force carried out bombing raids between October 1944 and March 1945 on Kyaukme station, rolling stock, tracks and roads as well as Japanese troop concentrations in the area. On 12 February 1945, British and American units of Lt Gen Sultan's Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC) were advancing south towards Lashio and Kyaukme but were being held up by heavy fighting near the Shweli River. Kyaukme was captured on 31 March 1945 by the British 36th Infantry Division an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayeyarwady River
The Irrawaddy River (, , Ayeyarwady) is the principal river of Myanmar, running through the centre of the country. Myanmar’s most important commercial waterway, it is about 1,350 miles (2,170 km) long. Originating from the confluence of the N'mai and Mali rivers, it flows from north to south before emptying through the Irrawaddy Delta in the Ayeyarwady Region into the Andaman Sea. Its drainage basin of about covers 61% of the land area of Burma, and contains five of its largest cities. As early as the sixth century, the river was used for trade and transport, and an extensive network of irrigation canals was developed to support agriculture. The river is still of great importance as the largest commercial waterway of Myanmar. It also provides important ecosystem services to different communities and economic sectors, including agriculture, fisheries, and tourism. In 2007, Myanmar's military dictatorship signed an agreement for the construction of seven hydroelectric d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gems & Gemology
''Gems & Gemology'' is a quarterly scientific journal published by the Gemological Institute of America. Each issue is devoted to research on diamonds, gemstones, and pearls. Topics include geographic sources, imitations and synthetics, treatments, and identification techniques. Established in January 1934, ''Gems & Gemology'' is geared toward jewelry professionals and gemologists. Issues contain research articles, updates from the GIA Laboratory and international gemology news. ''Gems & Gemology'' is abstracted and indexed by the Science Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', its 2016 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ... is 0.793, ranking it 24th out of 29 journals in the category "Mineralogy". References External links * Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Light Of Myanmar
''The New Light of Myanmar'' (, ; formerly ''The New Light of Burma'') rebranded as The Global New Light of Myanmar is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in Yangon, Myanmar. ''The New Light of Myanmar'' has been described as being propaganda for the Tatmadaw and the government, and features many articles about military officials. The majority of domestic news articles comes from the state-run Myanmar News Agency (MNA), whilst most international articles come from news services, particularly Reuters, which are published after censorship by the MNA. History The counterpart of the Myanmar-language ''Myanmar Alin'' (), the ''New Light of Myanmar'' is claimed by its editors to be the oldest English-language daily, first published on 12 January 1964 as ''The Working People's Daily''. The newspaper took on its current name on 17 April 1993. According to Bertil Lintner of ''The Irrawaddy ''The Irrawaddy'' () is a news website by the Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrative Divisions Of Myanmar
Myanmar is divided into 21 administrative divisions, which include #Regions, States, and Union Territory, seven regions, #Regions, States, and Union Territory, seven states, Naypyidaw Union Territory, one union territory, Wa Self-Administered Division, one self-administered division, and self-administered zone, five self-administered zones. Table Following is the table of government subdivisions and its organizational structure based on different regions, states, the union territory, the self-administered division, and the self-administered zones: The regions were called divisions prior to August 2010, and four of them are named after their capital city, the exceptions being Sagaing Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Tanintharyi Region. The regions can be described as ethnically predominantly Bamar people, Burman (Bamar), while the states, the zones and Wa Division are dominated by ethnic minorities. Yangon Region has the largest population and is the most densely populated. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
