Mong Hkun
Mong Hkun is a village in the Hukawng Valley of north-western Kachin State, Myanmar. The village is known for its nearby Burmite amber mines. It is also called Möng Hkawn in Shan, and it had a significant Shan population and a Saopha in the 1800s.- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Mainggun”, “Maingkwan”, and “Mungkawm”
Mong Hkun
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Tanai, Myitkyina District, Kachin State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Uzbek—“Mong Hkun” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “Mong Hkun”
- Burmese: “Mont Hkawm”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းခွန်း (မုံ့ခေါင်မ်)ရွာ၊ တနိုင်းမြို့နယ်”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းခွန်း”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းခွန်းရွာ၊ တနိုင်းမြို့နယ်”
- Burmese: “မုံ့ခေါင်မ်”
- Chinese: “孟关”
- Chinese: “迈昆”
- Czech: “Maingkwan”
- Dutch: “Maingkwan”
- Irish: “Maingkwan”
- Uzbek: “Maingkwan”
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