| 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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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.
Mongkung state was founded in ancient times as Langkavadi. In 1835, after the British annexed Upper Burma and established their rule in the region, Mongkung had been formerly a feudatory state of Hsenwi.[1]
The rulers of Mongkung bore the title Myoza in 1835-54 and 1863–73; Saopha in 1854-63 and from 1873.[2]
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