Mong La
Mong La or Mongla, also known as Mengla, is the capital of Mong La District and the administrative seat of Mong La Township in Shan State, Myanmar. Mong La is opposite Daluo, a Chinese border town in Yunnan Province, It is about 258 kilometres from the Thai border town of Mae Sai and 80 kilometres north-east of Kengtung, Myanmar.- Type: City with 43,000 residents
- Description: town in Shan, Myanmar
- Also known as: “Meng La”, “Moeng La”, “Möng La”, and “Mongla”
Mong La
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Mong La Township, Kengtung District, Shan State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.67623° or 21° 40′ 34″ northLongitude
100.02228° or 100° 1′ 20″ eastPopulation
43,000Elevation
2,096 feet (639 metres)Open location code
7PH2M2GC+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2121413974OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1847826Wikidata ID
Q1695650
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Thai—“Mong La” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Mong La”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းလား”
- Burmese: “မိုင်းလားမြို့”
- Chinese: “勐拉”
- Dutch: “Mong La”
- French: “Mong La”
- German: “Mong La”
- Japanese: “モンラ”
- Japanese: “モンラー”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻမွိုင်းလား”
- Russian: “Монгла”
- Shan: “မိူင်းလႃး၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းမိူင်းလႃး”
- Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥘᥣᥰ၊ ᥝᥥᥒᥰ”
- Thai: “เมืองล้า”
- Thai: “เมืองหล้า”
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