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Mawkmai State
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This article is about one of the former Shan States. For the present-day administrative division, see Mawkmai Township. For the town, see Mawkmai.
Mawkmai, also known as Maukme (Burmese: မောက်မယ်), was a Shan State in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States.[1]
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Mawkmai (Maukme) မောက်မယ်နယ် | |||||||||
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State of the Shan States | |||||||||
1767–1959 | |||||||||
![]() Mawkmai (Mok Mai) in a 19th-century map of the Shan States | |||||||||
Capital | Mawkmai | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 4,487 km2 (1,732 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 29,454 | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• State founded | 1767 | ||||||||
• Abdication of the last Saopha | 1959 | ||||||||
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