Tanai or Danai () is a town in

Kachin State Kachin State (; Jingpho language, Kachin: ) is the northernmost administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east (Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet and Yunnan, respectively), Shan State to the sou ...

, in the northernmost part of

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. It is the principal town of

Tanai Township Tanai Township () is the only township in Tanai District ( in northwestern Kachin State, northern Myanmar. The principal town is Tanai. On 30 April 2022, the Ministry of Home Affairs designated Tanai Township into a new district consisting of only ...

and Tanai District.

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...

is found in the area around Tanai, leading to paleontological discoveries like the

Cretoperipatus ''Cretoperipatus burmiticus'' is an extinct species of velvet worm known from Burmese amber. It is the sole member of the genus ''Cretoperipatus''. This animal lived in what is now Myanmar's Kachin State during the Cenomanian age of the Late C ...

species of worm.''

References

External links

landia.com/burma/kachin/tanai/tanaing/ Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Township capitals of Myanmar Populated places in Kachin State {{Kachin-geo-stub