Mong Hsat ( Burmese : မိုင်းဆတ်မြို့, MLCTS : muing.chat.mrui ) is a town in the Shan State of Myanmar , the capital of Mong Hsat Township . It is served by Monghsat Airport .
3-573: Monghsat State (Mönghsat, where Mong is equivalent to Thai Mueang ) was one of the Shan States . It was a tributary state of Kengtung State . The capital was the town of Monghsat. In 1950s, Republic of China Armed Forces controlled the town, and tried to build the town as a base to counterattack against mainland China which was taken over by the Chinese Communist Party to establish People's Republic of China before then. Cultivation of
6-468: The opium poppy is said to be on the rise in the area after the United Wa State Army decided to stop it in their territory of northern Shan state, in 2000s. This Shan State location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Monghsat State Monghsat or Mönghsat (also known as Mong Hsat ) was small state of the Shan States in what is today Burma . It
9-557: Was a small dependency of Kengtung State that had been a tract of land claimed by Mongnai State but annexed by Kengtung along with Mongpu further to the north. The capital and residence of the ruler was Monghsat town. Little is known about this state except that its forests had been overexploited at the turn of the 20th century during British Rule in Burma . 20°32′N 99°15′E / 20.533°N 99.250°E / 20.533; 99.250 This Burmese history article
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