Kachin State
Myitkyina District
Tanai

Tanai

Tanai or Danai is a town in , in the northernmost part of . It is the principal town of Tanai Township and Tanai District. Burmese amber is found in the area around Tanai, leading to paleontological discoveries like the Cretoperipatus species of worm.
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Photo: Kyaw Myo Hlaing (Tanai), CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Town with 32,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Danai” and “Tanai, Myanmar”

Tanai

Latitude
26.35556° or 26° 21′ 20″ north
Longitude
96.72124° or 96° 43′ 17″ east
Population
32,000
Elevation
692 feet (211 metres)
Open location code
7MRR9P4C+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4810186373
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
10793787
Wiki­data ID
Q7682228
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Shan—“Tanai” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “တနိုင်းမြို့”
  • Chinese: “德乃”
  • Dutch: “Tanai”
  • Irish: “Tanai”
  • Japanese: “タナイ”
  • Japanese: “タナイン”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻတနုဲင်း”
  • Polish: “Tanai”
  • Shan: “တႃႈၼၢႆး၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းတႃႈၼၢႆး”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tanai”. Photo: Kyaw Myo Hlaing (Tanai), CC BY-SA 3.0.