| Mong Kung | |
| Native Name: | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Burma |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Burma |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Shan State |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Loilen District |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Subdivision Name3: | Mong Kung Township |
| Timezone: | MST |
| Utc Offset: | +6.30 |
| Coordinates: | 21.6083°N 97.5306°W |
| Elevation M: | 1095 |
Mong Kung, Mongkung, Mongkaung or Möngkung (Burmese: မိုင်းကိုင်; Shan: မိူင်းၵိုင်) is a town in Shan State some east of Mandalay. It is the capital of Mong Kung Township, Myanmar.
The name "Mong Kung" means "town producing horse saddlery" in Shan, and has been transliterated into Burmese as Maingkaing.[1]
During British Burma, Mong Kung was the capital of Mongkung State of the Southern Shan States, with an area of . It was bounded on the north by Hsi Paw; on the east by Mong Tung, Kehsi Mansam and Mong Nawng; on the south by Lai Hka; and on the west by the western range of the Shan Hills and Lawk Sawk.
Mong Kung has had a turbulent and unstable history. It was described by Sir Charles Haukes Todd during the colonial period as: ...a State blessed with very fertile soil and good streams. But here also local dissension and Burman interference had brought ruin.[2]
More recently the area has been ravaged by conflicts between the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) and the Burmese Army.[3]