Namshan
Namshan is a village in Northern Shan State in Myanmar. Namshan is in the area where the Golden Palaung people live.
- Type: Town with 76,600 residents
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Nam San”, “Namh San”, “Namhsan”, “Namhsan Township”, and “Namsan”
- Address: Namhsan, Namhsan, Shan
Namshan
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Kyaukme District, Shan State, Eastern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.9637° or 22° 57′ 49″ north
Longitude
97.1611° or 97° 9′ 40″ east
Population
76,600
Elevation
5,994 feet (1,827 metres)
Open location code
7MJVX576+FF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Urdu—“Namshan” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “နမ့်ဆန်”
- Burmese: “နမ့်ဆန်မြို့”
- Burmese: “နမ့်ဆန်မြို့နယ်”
- Chinese: “南山”
- Chinese: “南散”
- Dutch: “Namshan”
- Indonesian: “Namhsan”
- Irish: “Namshan”
- Japanese: “ナムサン町”
- Japanese: “ナムシャン”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻနမ်သန်”
- Shan: “ၼမ်ႉသၼ်ႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ၼမ်ႉသၼ်ႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၼမ်ႉသၼ်ႇ”
- Swedish: “Namhsan”
- Tamil: “நாமஹசன்”
- Thai: “น้ำสั่น”
- Urdu: “نامسان”
- “Namshan”
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