Maingkwan
Maingkwan is a town in the Hukawng Valley of north-western Kachin State, Myanmar. The town is known for its nearby Burmite amber mines. Maingkwan is also called Möng Hkawn in Shan, and it had a significant Shan population and a Saopha in the 1800s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Mainggun”, “Mong Hkun (Mont Hkawm)”, and “Mungkawm”
Maingkwan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tanai, Myitkyina District, Kachin State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.31967° or 26° 19′ 11″ northLongitude
96.59341° or 96° 35′ 36″ eastElevation
699 feet (213 metres)Open location code
7MRR8H9V+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 9233573437OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Uzbek—“Maingkwan” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “Mong Hkun”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းခွန်း (မုံ့ခေါင်မ်)”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းခွန်း (မုံ့ခေါင်မ်)ရွာ၊ တနိုင်းမြို့နယ်”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းခွန်းရွာ၊ တနိုင်းမြို့နယ်”
- Chinese: “孟关”
- Chinese: “迈昆”
- Czech: “Maingkwan”
- Dutch: “Maingkwan”
- Irish: “Maingkwan”
- Uzbek: “Maingkwan”
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