Mong La Township
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Mong La Township is a township of Kengtung District
Kengtung District
Kengtung District is a district of the Shan State in Myanmar. It consists of 3 towns and 1449 villages.-Townships:The district contains the following townships:*Kengtung Township...

. The principal town is Mong La
Mong La
Mong La is principal town of Mong La Township. it is approximately 258 km from Mae Sai, a border town of Thailand. And it is approximately 80 km northeast of Kengtung. It situates opposite of Dalou, a china border town of Yunnan Province. It emerged from a small remote village in 1990s to a Myanmar...

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It was the Special Region #4 of Shan before new constitution (2008). It hosts "National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA)" and its leader Lin Mingxian aka Sai Lin. It was the #815 War Zone of former Burma Communist Party.

In General Election of 2010, Mong La constituency for People' Assemble aka Pyithu Hluttaw was canceled.
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