Shan State

[ shahn, shan ]

noun

1. a state in eastern Myanmar (Burma), along the Saiween River. About 56,000 sq. mi. (145,040 sq. km).

Shan State

/ ʃæn; ʃɑːn /

noun

1. an administrative division of E Myanmar: formed in 1947 from the joining of the Federation of Shan States with the Wa States; consists of the Shan plateau crossed by forested mountain ranges reaching over 2100 m (7000 ft). Pop: 4 416 000 (1994 est). Area: 149 743 sq km (57 816 sq miles)

Example Sentences

At dawn, the three young men hitched a ride from a truck driver and made it to Aung Ban, a township in the southern Shan state.

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It also comes after a ceasefire brokered by China in the northern Shan state fell apart.

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The fighting near the border in Shan state has blocked China's ambitious plan to connect its landlocked south-west to the Indian Ocean via Myanmar.

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Conflict is not new to impoverished Shan State.

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Many of the workers are from Lashio, the largest town in Shan State, and Laukkaing, home to junta-backed crime families - Laukkaing fell to rebel forces in January and Lashio was encircled, in a campaign which has changed the course of the war and China’s stake in it.

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