Native Name: | Möngpu |
Conventional Long Name: | Mongpu State |
Common Name: | Mongpu |
Nation: | the Shan States |
Subdivision: | State |
Year Start: | 17th century |
Event Start: | Founded as vassal state of Kengtung |
Year End: | 1959 |
Event End: | Abdication of the last ruler |
P1: | Mongnai State |
S1: | Shan State |
Flag S1: | Flag of Shan State.svg |
Image Map Caption: | Möngpu State in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map |
Capital: | Mong Pu |
Mongpu or Möngpu (also known as Mong Pu or Möng Pu) was a small state of the Shan States in what is today Burma.
Mongpu was a small dependency of Kengtung State[1] that had been a tract of land claimed by Mongnai State but annexed by Kengtung along with Monghsat further to the south. The capital and residence of the ruler was Mong Pu (Möng Pu) town.[2]
Little is known about this state except that its forests, which included valuable teak, had been overexploited at the turn of the 20th century during British Rule in Burma.[3] Loi San mountain is located about to the southeast of the town, overlooking the Möng Pu valley.[4]