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After the ceasefire, the Myanmar government began to call the region "Shan State Special Region No. 2 (Wa Region)" [20]: 111–112 (Parauk: Hak Tiex Baux Nong (2) Meung Man; [21] Chinese: 缅甸掸邦第二特区; Burmese: "ဝ" အထူးဒေသ(၂)). In 1990s, Wa State obtained Southern area by force. From 1999 to 2002, 80,000 former ...
Myanmar's government declared the area to be administered by the Wa people, under the official name Wa Special Region 2. Its territory is entirely under the control of the de facto independent Wa State. [4] Hopang and Pan Lon were directly controlled by the Tatmadaw until their transfer to Wa State in January 2024. [1] [5]
The regions were called divisions prior to August 2010, [1] and four of them are named after their capital city, the exceptions being Sagaing Region, Ayeyarwady Region and Tanintharyi Region. The regions can be described as ethnically predominantly Burman (Bamar) , while the states, the zones and Wa Division are dominated by ethnic minorities.
The Wa States was the name formerly given to the Wa Land, the natural and historical region inhabited mainly by the Wa people, an ethnic group speaking an Austroasiatic language. The region is located to the northeast of the Shan States of British Burma , in the area of present-day Shan State of northern Myanmar (Burma) and the western zone of ...
Constituency maps for State and Regional Hluttaws. Myanmar (also known as Burma) is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include seven states (ပြည်နယ်; pyi ne, IPA:), seven regions (တိုင်းဒေသကြီး; taing detha gyi, IPA: [táiɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí]), five self-administered zones and one self-administered division (Wa Self-Administered ...
The Wa States in an early 20th century The Imperial Gazetteer of India map.. The Wa people (Wa: Vāx; Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး, [wa̰ lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 佤 族; pinyin: Wǎzú; Thai: ว้า) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Myanmar's border with China ...
After the collapse of the Communist Party of Burma in 1989, Peng Jiasheng's Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) took control of the region. A ceasefire between the group and the Tatmadaw was signed in the same year, the area controlled by MNDAA was assigned as the autonomous "First Special Region" of Shan State (Chinese: 缅甸掸邦第一特区; Burmese: မြန ...
Wa Self-Administered Division [2] 2 Hopang District: ဟိုပန်ခရိုင် Hopang: Split in September 2011 from Kunlong District, since 2024 it is the facto part of Wa State: Matman District: မက်မန်းခရိုင် Matman: Split in 2013 from Hopang District, it is the facto part of Wa State: Tanintharyi Region: 4 ...