Shan State
Shan State is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Myanmar in the west.
- Type: State with 5,820,000 residents
- Description: state in Republic of the Union of Myanmar
- Also known as: “Bang Shan”, “Država Šan”, “Estado de Shan”, “État des Chans”, “Etat Shan”, “MM-17”, “Šan”, “Shan estatu”, “Shan staat”, “Shan Staat”, “Shan-staat”, “Stato di Shan”, “اسٹیٹ شان”, “เมืองไตย”, “รัฐชาน”, “สหรัฐไตย”, and “မိူင်းတႂ်ႈ”
- Neighbors: Chiang Mai Province, Chiang Rai Province, Mae Hong Son Province, and Yunnan
Shan State
- Categories: state of Myanmar and locality
- Location: Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.5122° or 21° 30′ 44″ north
Longitude
98.0098° or 98° 0′ 35″ east
Population
5,820,000
Elevation
2,927 feet (892 metres)
Open location code
7MHWG265+VW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Shan State” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Nanggroë Shan”
- Amharic: “ሻን ክልል”
- Arabic: “ولاية شان”
- Armenian: “Շան”
- Assamese: “ছান ৰাজ্য”
- Azerbaijani: “Şan (Myanma)”
- Azerbaijani: “Şan ştatı”
- Azerbaijani: “Şan”
- Balinese: “Negara Wagian Shan”
- Basque: “Shan estatua”
- Basque: “Shan”
- Belarusian: “Шан”
- Bengali: “শান রাজ্য”
- Burmese: “ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Estat Shan”
- Cebuano: “Shan State”
- Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی شان”
- Chinese: “掸邦”
- Chinese: “撣邦”
- Czech: “Šanský stát”
- Danish: “Shan State”
- Dutch: “Shan”
- Esperanto: “Ŝanio”
- Estonian: “Šani osariik”
- Finnish: “Shan”
- French: “État de Shan”
- French: “État shan”
- French: “Shan”
- Georgian: “შანის შტატი”
- German: “Shan State”
- German: “Shan-Staat”
- Greek: “Σαν”
- Gujarati: “શાન સ્ટેટ”
- Hausa: “Shan State”
- Hindi: “शान राज्य”
- Ido: “Stato Shan”
- Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Shan”
- Italian: “Stato Shan”
- Japanese: “シャン”
- Japanese: “シャン州”
- Javanese: “Shan State”
- Kannada: “ಶನ್ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Шан облысы”
- Khmer: “រដ្ឋសាន”
- Kirghiz: “Шан”
- Korean: “샨주”
- Lao: “ລັດຊານ”
- Latvian: “Šanas pavalsts”
- Lithuanian: “Šanų valstija”
- Macedonian: “Шан”
- Malay: “Shan State”
- Malayalam: “ഷാൻ സംസ്ഥാനം”
- Marathi: “शान राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shan Chiu”
- Nepali: “सान राज्य”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shan-staten”
- Norwegian: “Shan”
- Oromo: “Shan State”
- Ossetian: “Шан (штат)”
- Ossetian: “Шан”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဖြဝ်ꩻခမ်းနယ်ႏ”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਨ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “ایالت شان”
- Polish: “Szan”
- Portuguese: “Shan”
- Portuguese: “Xã”
- Pushto: “شان ايالت”
- Romanian: “Statul Shan”
- Russian: “Шан”
- Santali: “ᱥᱟᱱ ᱯᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Scots: “Shan State”
- Serbian: “Шан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Država Shan”
- Shan: “မိူင်းတႆး”
- Sinhala: “ශාන් රාජ්ය”
- Slovenian: “Zvezna država Šan”
- Somali: “Shan State”
- Spanish: “Estado Shan”
- Spanish: “Shan”
- Swahili: “Shan State”
- Swedish: “Shanstaten”
- Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥖᥭᥰ”
- Tajik: “Шохристони Шон”
- Tamil: “சான் மாநிலம்”
- Tamil: “ஷான் மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Shan Дәүләте”
- Telugu: “షాన్ రాష్ట్రం”
- Thai: “รัฐฉาน”
- Turkish: “Şan”
- Turkish: “Shan State”
- Ukrainian: “Шан”
- Urdu: “ریاست شان”
- Uzbek: “Shan State”
- Vietnamese: “Shan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shan (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shan”
- Western Armenian: “Շան”
- Wu Chinese: “掸邦”
- Yue Chinese: “撣邦”
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