Kunhing is located in Kunhing Township

Kunhing Township

Kunhing Township is a township of Loilen District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Kunhing....

 in the middle part of southern Shan state

Shan State

Shan State is a state of Burma . Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Burma in the west. Largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km², almost a quarter of the total...

, Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

. The name Kunhein refers to "a thousand island" in the local Shan language

Shan language

The Shan language is the native language of Shan people and spoken mostly in Shan State, Burma. It is also used in pockets of Kachin State in Burma, in northern Thailand, and in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. Shan is a member of the Tai–Kadai language family, and...

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Geographic

Kunhing is located at 21°18′10"N 98°25′36"E.

Population

As refers to 1988 census figures, it has less than 30,000 population; primarily Shans. Minorities are Akar, Lisu and Palaung

De'ang

The Palaung are a Mon–Khmer ethnic minority found in Shan State of Burma, Yunnan province of China and northern Thailand. They live mainly in the northern parts of Shan State in the Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone, with the capital at Namhsan. There are three main subgroups of Palaung: the Palé,...

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Places of interest

Kunhing Bridge – over 4000 metres (13,123.4 ft) in length crossing over two big islands in Nampan River. It is a dominant bridge on the Taunggyi

Taunggyi

-Transportation:The main access to Taunggyi is by road. A railway line that passes through Taunggyi was recently built in 1995, but at the moment it offers no passenger service. Regular railway passenger service to the rest of the country is through the town of Shwenyaung, twelve miles to the...

-Kengtung Road.