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Kachin State (, ; Kachin: Jingphaw Mungdaw), is the northernmost state of Burma. It is bordered by China to the north and east; Shan State to the south; and Sagaing Division and India to the west. It lies between north latitude 23° 27' and 28° 25' longitude 96° 0' and 98° 44'. The area of Kachin State is . The capital of the state is Myitkyina. Other important towns include Bhamo.
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The Ledo Road, (from Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, Yunnan, China) was built during World War II so that the Western Allies could supply the Chinese as an alternative to the Burma Road which had been cut by the Japanese in 1942. It was renamed the Stilwell Road (named after General Vinegar Joe Stilwell of the U.S. Army) in early 1945 at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek. It passes through Burma towns of shingbwiyang, Myitkyina and Bhamo in Kachin state.
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Myitkyina District () is a district of the Kachin State in northern Burma (Myanmar). The capital lies at Myitkyina.
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Yangon (, ; also known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") is a former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the capital of Yangon Region (formerly Yangon Division). Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial center.
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63rd Kachin Manau festival begins in Myitkyina
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The Irrawaddy River flows from north to south through the center of Burma. Since 2005, Burma's military junta in partnership with the China Power Investment Corporation have been preparing plans to build a 3600 - 6000 megawatt Irrawaddy Myitsone dam on the river. China Gezhouba is the main dam builder. Located a mile below the confluence of the Mali and N'Mai Rivers in Kachin State, the source of the Irrawaddy River, the Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam is the largest of seven dams now proposed for these three rivers. If built, the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam would create a reservoir the size of New York City and displace 10000 people, mostly from the Kachin ethnic group. The dam will also submerge historical churches, temples, and cultural heritage sites that are central to Kachin identity and history. The dam site is located within the Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rainforest region, which is recognized as one of the world's top biodiversity hotspots and a global conservation priority. If built, the Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam would inundate approximately 766 square kilometers of this pristine rainforest and cause irreversible damage to its river systems. The dam would also disrupt transportation of nutrients to the Irrawaddy's delta, which provides nearly 60 percent of Burma's rice. Local communities oppose the dam not just because of its environmental impacts, displacement, and threats to cultural sites, but also because the dam is located less than 100 kilometers from a major fault line <b>...</b>
Myitkyina - My Home Town
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bushytrips 024 Myanmar, Burma, Myitkyina, Kachin State Day and the YMCA
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bushytrips 026 Myanmar, Burma, Myitkyina and the Bhamo Boat
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ALLIES WIN MYITKYINA AIRSTRIP [ETC.]
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ALLIES WIN MYITKYINA AIRSTRIP [ETC.] - National Archives and Records Administration 1944 - ARC 39019, LI 208-UN-112 - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, transport planes and gliders land troops on Myitkyina airstrip in northern Burma. Shows Gen. Stilwell and Gen. Frank Merrill. Lt. Col. Seagrave operates on wounded in a field hospital. Part 2, US service women sightsee in Egypt on camels. Part 3, all US artillery pieces in Normandy fire on the 4th of July. Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Joseph Collins participate. French school children sing "America." Part 4, carrier-based planes land on Saipan, refuel, and then bomb Japanese positions on the island. Marines advance.
KNG TV, Oct 2, 2008: Myitkyina Night Curfew
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Junta imposes Night Curfew in Burma's northern Kachin State capital Myitkyina.
Burma - Computer University (Myitkyina) Kachin State
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Myitkyina Arya Samaj Raksha Bandhan
"Three days on the Irrawaddy River" Castewart's photos around Myitkyina, Myanmar (myitkyina ymca)
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Preview of Castewart's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Myitkyina, Myanmar Entry Title: "Three days on the Irrawaddy River" Entry: "The sleeper train from Mandalay to Myitkyina, 150 miles north, took 20 hours. We had wanted to buy an ordinary class ticket, costing $9, but were told by the station staff at Mandalay that we would need to wait at least four hours to have an interview with the Station Superintendent and then he might or might not allow us to buy such a ticket....and so, crossly, we spent $36 each on sleeper tickets. The train was Chinese and it was ancient, filthy and cramped. We shared our compartment with a jolly Burmese man who turned out to own a gold mine (I too would be jolly if I owned a gold mine). One of the items on the menu in the buffet car was "deep fried sparrow" but we settled for the altogether safer "fried noddles". Arriving at about 9 am the next morning, we checked into the YMCA, the best "budget" hotel in town. We made friends there with a cultivated Australian (yes, but wait) called Eliot (after TS) who turned out to be half-French (see). We all had dinner together and he ordered the local wine. This was served in a beer mug and looked and tasted like a blackcurrant yoghurt smoothie with a shot of vodka in it. The French have nothing to fear from the Burmese any time soon. The next three days were spent on <b>...</b>
"Kachin manau festival" Misterfrancis's photos around Myitkyina, Myanmar (kachin bag in myanmar)
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Preview of Misterfrancis's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Myitkyina, Myanmar Entry Title: "Kachin manau festival" Entry: "after a 48 hour trip from bangkok, i finally arrived in myitkyina, the place i wanted to come so badly to see the annual manau festival of the kachin people. ok. external circumstances (internet cafe is closing) force me to continue this entry another time... mhhh... just had around 50 chinese dumplings, steamed and fried, for lunch... so, the festival was an amazing experience. it was worth the tedious journey by night bus and night train all the way up from yangon. a colorful gathering of all the different kachin tribe people in their traditional costumes to celebrate the 59th anniversary of the kachin state with lots of music, dancing, cultural performances, food, drinks, markets and a miss manau 2007 beauty contest - what an eye-stimuli. i tell you i finished with 1 gig of pictures only fom that beauty contest ;) watch out for my private myanmar beauty photo gallery. it will be updated as soon as i can find a convienent internet place here in myanmar. there was also a welcome center for foreigners and other vips (like army people), so we got the chance to meet some really lovely local people who were working there as translators. most of them were students, eager to practise their oral english. some of them have <b>...</b>
Baptist Youth Mark Environment Day (Burmese)
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Over 1000 Kachin Baptist youth marked the June 5th World Environment Day with special a program in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, Northern Burma. Under the title of "Preserve Your Beautiful World", participants took part in five competitions related to the environment such as poetry, features, cartoons, painting (art) and photography, as well as a traditional Christian prayer service at Gies Memorial Baptist Church in downtown Myitkyina. The event was conducted by the Youth Department of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) and it was also joined by some non-governmental organizations in the Kachin capital.
![A Soviet T-34 tank on the street of Belgrade By the start of July, Commonwealth forces in Southeast Asia had repelled the Japanese sieges in Assam, pushing the Japanese back to the Chindwin River[158] while the Chinese captured Myitkyina](http://web.archive.org./web/20110901053538im_/http://cdn0.wn.com/pd/5e/27/404fb62c093053025377e4b20122_grande.jpg "A Soviet T-34 tank on the street of Belgrade By the start of July, Commonwealth forces in Southeast Asia had repelled the Japanese sieges in Assam, pushing the Japanese back to the Chindwin River[158] while the Chinese captured Myitkyina")
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Monywa (Burmese: မုံရြာၿမိဳ႕; MLCTS: mum hrwa mrui.) is a city in Sagaing Division, Myanmar, located 136 km northwest of Mandalay on the eastern bank of the River Chindwin.
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Myitkyina
| Native name | |
|---|---|
| Official name | Myitkyina |
| Pushpin label position | bottom |
| Pushpin map | Burma |
| Pushpin map caption | Location in Burma |
| Subdivision type | Country |
| Subdivision name | |
| Subdivision type1 | Division |
| Subdivision name1 | Kachin State |
| Subdivision type2 | District |
| Subdivision name2 | Myitkyina District |
| Subdivision type3 | Township |
| Subdivision name3 | Myitkyina Township |
| Unit pref | Imperial |
| Area code | 74 |
| Population as of | 2005 |
| Population blank1 | Kachin, Shan, Bamar, Chinese, Gorkha |
| Population blank1 title | Ethnicities |
| Population blank2 | Buddhism, Christianity |
| Population blank2 title | Religions |
| Population density km2 | auto |
| Population total | 146,544 |
| Coordinates region | MM |
| Footnotes | |
| Latns | N |
| Longew | E |
| Coordinates | 25°23′0″N97°24′0″N |
| Timezone | MST |
| Utc offset | +6.30 |
History
Myitkyina has been a important trading town between China and Burma since ancient times.American Baptist missionary George J. Geis and his wife arrived in Myitkyina in the late 1890s and in 1900 requested permission to build a misison there.
In August 1944 during World War II, Myitkyina fell to the Allied forces under General Joseph Stilwell after a prolonged siege and heavy fighting between Nationalist Chinese divisions, the Chindits, and Merrill's Marauders of the Northern Combat Area Command and the besieged elements of the 33rd Imperial Japanese Army under General Masaki Honda. The town was strategically important not only because of its rail and water links to the rest of Burma, but also because it was on the planned route of the Ledo Road.
As the capital of the state, it has government offices, and a greater population than other cities in the state. The city has a population of approximately 150,000, with a mix of Kachin, Shan, Bamar peoples and some Chinese and Indians. Fragrant rice produced near Myitkyina, called khat cho, is considered the best in Myanmar.
The Kachin language is the common language among the Kachin, but Burmese is the national language and everyone can speak Burmese. It has two big markets. The city is home to Myitkyina University, a teachers college, a nurses training school, and a computer college, and various Christian theological seminaries and colleges affiliated with several seminaries in the U.S. and Asia, notably Kachin Theological College-Nawng Nan.
Major religions are Theravada Buddhism and Baptist Christianity, but other religions such as animism, Hinduism and Islam are also practised. Foreigners are now free to visit Myitkyina without prior government permission.
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