Chin Hills

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. a mountain range in western Myanmar (Burma), on the Indian border; part of the Arakan Yoma system of mountain ranges. Reaches 10,018 feet (3,056 meters) at Mt. Victoria.

Chin Hills

/ tʃɪn /

plural noun

1. a mountainous region of W Myanmar; part of the Arakan Yoma system. Highest peak: Mount Victoria, 3053 m (10 075 ft)

Example Sentences

Capt Bankes was just 32 years old, and for his service in the Chin hills he was posthumously awarded the Military Cross for "gallant and distinguished service in Burma and on the Eastern Frontier of India".

From BBC

Another great help was retired psychiatrist Desmond Kelly, who has written a book about the campaign in the Chin hills based on the letters of his own father, Lt Col Norman Kelly, a friend and comrade of Capt Bankes.

From BBC

When his mother Pearl died in June last year, at the age of 94, he placed the bones in a velvet sack along with some earth from the Chin hills, and the undertaker placed it in her hand - thus reuniting them in death, 72 years apart.

From BBC

We were ordered to save out only what each one thought he could carry up the Chin Hills and abandon the trucks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upper Chindwin lies to the north of the lower district, and is bounded on the N. by the Chin, Nāga and Kachin hills; on the E. they are bounded by the Myitkyina, Katha and Shwebo districts; Lower Chindwin is bounded on the S. by the Pakôkku and Sagaing districts; and both districts are bounded on the W. by the Chin hills, and by Pakôkku on the southern stretch.

From Project Gutenberg