Keng Tung
| ကျိုင်းတုံ Keng Tung |
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| Coordinates | 21 ° 17 ′ N , 99 ° 36 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Myanmar | ||
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Shan state | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | MM-17 | ||
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Keng Tung or Kengtung ( Burmese ကျိုင်းတုံမြို့ ; BGN / PCGN : kyaingdônmyo), also known as Cheingtung, Chiang Tung, Kyaingtong and Kengtong, is a city in Shan State in eastern Myanmar .
history
Keng Tung was founded in the late thirteenth century by the grandson of King Mengrai's son , who came from the Chiang Mai dynasty . It was part of the Lan Na kingdom . Because of this, the ethnic composition is slightly different from the rest of Shan State.
During World War II , Keng Tung became a central target of military intervention by the Thai Army , which captured the city on May 27, 1942 and set up their headquarters here. At the end of the war, the troops withdrew from Shan State.
The Palace of Saopha (Princes) of Keng Tung, a colonial-style building was built in 1905 by Kawng Intaleng Kiao, and destroyed by the military regime in 1991.
Geography and climate
The city of Keng Tung is located at the southern end of a valley that is about 19 km long and an average of 11 km wide. There is a city wall with a moat eight kilometers long. In the dry season, many people from the area and numerous caravans from China come to the market in the city. The plain is at an altitude of 910 m above sea level.
The average rainfall is 150 cm per year. The daytime temperatures rise to almost 38 degrees during the hot period. The lowest temperatures around freezing at night.
economy
There are minerals that have hardly been mined so far. Most of the streams are panned for gold. There are teak forests in Mong Pu and Mong Hsat, these are cut through public procurement. A third of the price from selling the logs goes to Mawlamyaing as the government receives royalties. There are teak forests in the Mekong catchment area in the south of the state, but there is only one local market for this wood. It is also rice , sugar cane , EAI th-nuts, tobacco , cotton , poppy and tea grown. In addition, the livestock industry is of great importance. There is a university.
traffic
- Keng Tung is on trunk road 4 (NH4) and on AH2 and AH3 of the Asian trunk road project .
- The city has a national airport . ( IATA code KET, ICAO : VYKG)
- On December 19, 2010, the Keng Tung station was opened by the Myanmar State Railways, the station is part of the Mong Nai - Kengtung railway project
religion
Kengtung is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop .
literature
- Recital of the Tham Vessantara-j Ataka: a social-cultural phenomenon in Kengtung, Eastern Shan State, Myanmar (PDF; 390 kB)
- JG Scott: Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States . 5 vols. Rangoon, 1900-1901 (PDF; 12.1 MB)
- Göran Aijmer: "Dominance in a Traditional State. The Kingdom of Kengtung". In: "Anthropos", Vol. 110, No. 1 (2015), pp. 43-62.
- John Haxton Teldfor: "Animism in Kengtung". In: "The Journal of the Burma Research Society", Vol. 27, No. 2 (1937), pp. 86-237.
