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Kachin State (Jingphaw Mungdan), is the northernmost state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east; Shan State to the south; and Sagaing Division and India to the west. It lies between north latitude 23° 27' and 28° 25' longitude 96° 0' and 98° 44' . The area of Kachin State is 34,379 sq. miles. The capital of the state is Myitkyina. Other important towns include Bhamo. Image File history File links Kachinstateflag. ... Myitkyina is a city, and the capital of Kachin State in Myanmar, located 919miles from Yangon, or 487 miles from Mandalay. ... The Jingpo or Kachin people (Chinese: æ™¯é¢‡æ— JÇngpÅzÃº; own names: Jingpo, Tsaiva, Lechi) are an ethnic group who largely inhabit northern Myanmar (Kachin State). ... The Bamar (Burmese: á€—á€™á€¬; IPA: ), sometimes called Burman, are the dominant ethnic group of Myanmar, constituting approximately 68% (30,000,000) of the population. ... The Shan (Burmese: ) are an ethnic group of Southeast Asia. ... Chin (Burmese: ) is one of the ethnic groups in Myanmar (formerly Burma). ... The word Naga can refer to several different things. ... Buddhism (also known as Buddha Dharma, meaning approximately Law of the Awakening) is a religion, a practical philosophy, and arguably a psychology, focusing on the teachings of the Buddha ÅšÄkyamuni (SiddhÄrtha Gautama), who lived in ancient India most likely from the mid-6th to the early 5th century BCE... Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recounted in the Gospels. ... For other uses, including people named Islam, see Islam (disambiguation). ... Hinduism (Sanskrit - SanÄtana (eternal) Dharma also known as Vaidika (Vedic) Dharma) is a religion or philosophy that originated from the Indian subcontinent and nearby surrounding areas. ... Image File history File links MyanmarKachin. ... Image File history File links KNOFLAG.PNGâ€Ž Summary Flag of Kachin National Organization (KNO News and Info, http://kachinland. ... Burma is divided into 7 states and 7 divisions Categories: Myanmar ... Shan State is a state located in Myanmar (Burma), which takes its name from the Shan people, the majority ethnic group in the Shan State. ... Sagaing Division is a division of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21Â° 30 north and longitude 94Â° 97 east. ... Myitkyina is a city, and the capital of Kachin State in Myanmar, located 919miles from Yangon, or 487 miles from Mandalay. ... Bhamo is a city in Kachin State in Myanmar, located 186 km south from the capital of Myitkyina. ...

Kachin State has Myanmar’s highest mountain, Hkakabo Razi, at 5889 meters in height, forming the southern tip of the Himalayas, and Myanmar’s largest lake, Indawgyi Lake. Hkakabo Razi is Southeast Asias highest mountain, located in nothern Myanmar state of Kachin. ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ... Indawgyi lake is wided 8 miles east to west and 15 miles south to north. ...

Population

The majority of the state's 1.4 million inhabitants are ethnic Kachin, also known as Jinghpaw, and the state is officially home to another 13 ethnic groups, including Bamar, Rawang, Lisu, Zaiwa, Maru, Yaywin, Lawngwaw, Lachyit), and Shan. No census has been taken in almost a century. Official government statistics state that the distribution by religion is 57.8% Buddhist, 36.4% Christian. The Kachin language is the lingua franca in the State, and has a written version based on the Roman alphabet. [1] Kachin is a state of Burma. ... The Jingpo or Kachin people (Chinese: æ™¯é¢‡æ— JÇngpÅzÃº; own names: Jingpo, Tsaiva, Lechi) are an ethnic group who largely inhabit northern Myanmar (Kachin State). ... The Bamar (Burmese: á€—á€™á€¬; IPA: ), sometimes called Burman, are the dominant ethnic group of Myanmar, constituting approximately 68% (30,000,000) of the population. ... The Nung-Rawang people are an ethnic group who inhabit far northern Kachin State of Myanmar (Burma). ... Lisu Ladies in Traditional Dress, Northern Thailand The Lisu people, also known as Yobin, are an ethnic group who inhabit Myanmar (Burma) China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. ... Maru can refer to The word maru is often attached to Japanese ship names. ... The Shan (Burmese: ) are an ethnic group of Southeast Asia. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, SiddhÄrtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... A Christian is a follower of Jesus, whom they regard as a/the Christ. ... Lingua franca, literally Frankish language in Italian, was originally a mixed language consisting largely of Italian plus a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, French, Greek and Arabic and used for communication throughout the Middle East. ... ...

Economy

The economy of Kachin State is predominantly agricultural. The main products include rice, sugar cane. Mineral products include gold and jade. Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Rice refers to two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southeastern Asia and to Africa, which together provide more than one fifth of the calories consumed by humans[1]. Rice is an annual plant, growing to 1-1. ... Species Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... A selection of antique, hand-crafted Chinese jadeite jade buttons Jade An ornamental stone, jade is a name applied to two different silicate minerals. ...

History

Kachin State was formed in 1948 out of the British Burma civil districts of Bhamo and Myitkyina, together with the larger northern district of Puta-o. The vast mountainous hinterlands are predominantly Kachin, whereas the more densely populated railway corridor and southern valleys are mostly Shan and Bamar. The northern frontier was not demarcated until the 1960s and Chinese governments have claimed all of Kachin State as Chinese territory since the 18th century. During the Konbaung era, roughly 75% off all Kachin jadeite ended up in China, where it was prized much more highly that the local Chinese nephrite. Bhamo is a city in Kachin State in Myanmar, located 186 km south from the capital of Myitkyina. ... Myitkyina is a city, and the capital of Kachin State in Myanmar, located 919miles from Yangon, or 487 miles from Mandalay. ... THIS ARTICLE IS WRONG! ... Kachin is a state of Burma. ... The Shan (Burmese: ) are an ethnic group of Southeast Asia. ... The Bamar (Burmese: á€—á€™á€¬; IPA: ), sometimes called Burman, are the dominant ethnic group of Myanmar, constituting approximately 68% (30,000,000) of the population. ... This article is on the politics of Mainland China. ... Jadeite is a pyroxene mineral with composition NaAlSi2O6. ... There is also a community named Actinolite,_Ontario in Canada. ...

Kachin troops formerly formed a significant part of the Burmese army. With the unilateral abrogation of the Union of Burma constitution by the Ne Win regime in 1962, Kachin forces withdrew and formed the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) under the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). Aside from the major towns and railway corridor, Kachin State has been virtually independent from the mid 1960s through 1994, with an economy based on smuggling, jade trade with China and narcotics. After a Myanmar army offensive in 1994 seized the jade mines from the KIO, a peace treaty was signed, permitting continued KIO effective control of most of the State, under aegis of the Myanmar military. This ceasefire immediately resulted in the creation of numerous splinter factions from the KIO and KIA of groups opposed to the peace accord, and the political landscape remains highly unstable. Bo Ne Win (Burmese: ; MLCTS: ; May 24 or May 14, 1911 or July 10, 1910 â€“ December 5, 2002), born Shu Maung) was a Burmese military commander and dictator of Burma from 1962 until 1988. ... A skirmish with smugglers from Finland at the Russian border, 1853, by Vasily Hudiakov. ... The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word for stupor, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis). ...

Currently, the Kachin Independence Organization is fully supports Burmese regime's sham National Convention which opposed by all others opposition groups. The KIO is hoping to participate future election after constitution has completed that guaranteed Burmese military regime 25% of reserved seats in central puppet government.

Traditional Kachin society was based on shifting hill agriculture supplemented by banditry and feud warfare. Political authority was based on petty chieftains who depended on support from immediate kinsmen. Considerable attention has been given by anthropologists of the Kachin custom of maternal cousin marriage, wherein it is permissible for a man to marry his mother’s brother’s daughter, but not with the father’s sister’s daughter. Traditional religion was animist, but missionary activity since the British period have converted the vast majority of the population to Christianity (notably US Baptist with pockets of Roman Catholicism), with the consequent damage to traditional society and culture. Ironically, the less isolated Jingpaw across the border in China have retained more of their traditional religion. Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recounted in the Gospels. ... A Baptist is a member of a Baptist church. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

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