Kengtung
Kengtung, also spelt Kyaingtong, classical name Tungapuri, is a city in Shan State, Myanmar. It is the principal town of Kengtung Township and the former seat of Kengtung State, a minor principality.
Photo: Letboonwaat, Public domain.- Type: City with 75,900 residents
- Description: town in Shan State, Myanmar
- Also known as: “Cheingtung”, “Chiang Tung”, “Chieng Tung”, “Kengtong”, “Kēntung”, “Kyaingdôn”, “Kyaingtong”, and “孟艮府”
Kengtung
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Kengtung Township, Kengtung District, Shan State, Eastern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.2918° or 21° 17′ 31″ north
Longitude
99.6029° or 99° 36′ 10″ east
Population
75,900
Elevation
2,598 feet (792 metres)
IATA airport code
KET
Open location code
7MHX7JR3+P4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kengtung” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كينغتنغ”
- Asturian: “Kengtung”
- Azerbaijani: “Çyonqtun”
- Azerbaijani: “Kenqtunq (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Kenqtunq”
- Bengali: “কেংতুং”
- Burmese: “ကျိုင်းတုံ”
- Burmese: “ကျိုင်းတုံမြို့”
- Catalan: “Estat de Kengtung”
- Catalan: “Estat Kengtung”
- Catalan: “Kengtung”
- Catalan: “Kentung”
- Chinese: “景栋”
- Chinese: “景棟”
- Dutch: “Kengtung”
- French: “Kengtung”
- French: “Kyaing Tong”
- German: “Keng Tung”
- German: “Kengtung”
- Italian: “Kengtung”
- Japanese: “ケング・タング”
- Japanese: “ケンツン”
- Japanese: “ケントゥン”
- Japanese: “チャイントン”
- Korean: “켕퉁”
- Lao: “ຊຽງຕຸງ”
- Lao: “ຊຽງທຸງ”
- Latin: “Kengtung”
- Lithuanian: “Čiongtunas”
- Lithuanian: “Kentongas”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻကိင်ꩻတွုံ”
- Polish: “Kengtung”
- Portuguese: “Kengtung”
- Russian: “Чёнгтун”
- Shan: “ၵဵင်းတုင်၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ၵဵင်းတုင်”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၵဵင်းတုင်”
- Tagalog: “Kengtung”
- Thai: “เชียงตุง”
- Thai: “ตุงคบุรี”
- Thai: “นครเขมรัฐ”
- Thai: “เมืองเชียงตุง”
- Urdu: “کینگتونگ”
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