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5 unusual facts about Kayin State


Apalon

Apalon is a village in Kyain Seikgyi Township, Kawkareik District, in the Kayin State of Burma (Myanmar).

Low intensity conflict

The Union of Myanmar (the official name of Burma) has regularly conducted limited low-intensity military campaigns against the independence movement of the Karen people in an area of southeast Burma (roughly corresponding to a Burmese administrative region called the Kayin State), which has actively pursued independence since January 1949.

Mae Ramat District

Neighboring districts are (from the northwest clockwise) Tha Song Yang of Tak Province, Omkoi of Chiang Mai Province, Sam Ngao, Ban Tak, Mueang Tak and Mae Sot of Tak Province again and Kayin State of Myanmar.

Manerplaw

Manerplaw is a city in the Kayin State of Burma and is also the suggested capital of the proposed Kawthoolei state that the Karen people of Burma have been trying to establish since the late 1940s.

Phop Phra District

Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Mae Sot, Mueang Tak, Wang Chao of Tak Province, Ban Rai of Uthai Thani Province, Umphang of Tak Province again and Kayin State of Myanmar.



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