Kingdom of Pong
The Kingdom of Pong or Pong Kingdom was an ethnically Tai state that controlled several smaller states along the frontier of what is now Myanmar and Assam.
| Kingdom of Pong | |||||||
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| State of the ancient Shan States | |||||||
| 1st century AD–1479 | |||||||
1917 map of the Burmese Shan States with Mogaung in the upper left corner | |||||||
| History | |||||||
• Kingdom of Pong founded | 1st century AD | ||||||
• Occupied by China | 1479 | ||||||
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It was bounded on the north by the mountain ranges that divide present-day Myanmar and Assam State, in the south by Khambat, reaching to Yunnan in the east and the Chin Hills in the west. Its capital was Mogaung, known by the Shan people as Mongkawng.
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