Falam
Falam is a town in northwestern Burma near Burma's western border with the Indian state of Mizoram. The town was founded by the Taisun tribe. The British arrived in Falam in 1892, and it became an important base for British rule of the Chin Hills.
- Type: Town with 9,090 residents
- Description: Second biggest city in Chin State, Myanmar
- Also known as: “Falam, Myanmar” and “Palan”
Falam
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Falam Township, Falam, Chin State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.91394° or 22° 54′ 50″ north
Longitude
93.67901° or 93° 40′ 44″ east
Population
9,090
Elevation
5,180 feet (1,579 metres)
IATA airport code
SRU
Open location code
7MJMWM7H+HJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Falam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Falam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فالام (ميانمار)”
- Arabic: “فالام”
- Burmese: “ဖလမ်းမြို့”
- Catalan: “Falam”
- Cebuano: “Falam”
- Chinese: “法伦”
- Chinese: “法兰”
- Chinese: “法蘭”
- Danish: “Falam”
- Dutch: “Falam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فالام”
- French: “Falam”
- Irish: “Falam”
- Italian: “Falam”
- Japanese: “ファラム (ミャンマー)”
- Japanese: “ファラム”
- Korean: “팔람”
- Korean: “펄람”
- Lithuanian: “Falamas”
- Lithuanian: “Phalamas”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻဖလန်း”
- Polish: “Falam”
- Portuguese: “Falam (Mianmar)”
- Portuguese: “Falam”
- Russian: “Пхалан”
- Russian: “Фалам”
- Shan: “ၾလမ်း၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၾလမ်း”
- Spanish: “Falam”
- Swedish: “Falam”
- Ukrainian: “Пхалан”
- Urdu: “فالام، بورما”
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