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Encyclopedia Britannica



MONG NAI (called by the Burmese and on most old maps Monti)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 711 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONG NAI (called by the Burmese and on most old maps Monti) , one of the largest and most important of the states in the eastern subdivision of the southern Shan States of Burma. The state of Keng Tawng (Burmese Kyaing Taung) is a dependency of Mong Nai. It lies approximately between 2o 1o' and 21 N. and between 97 30' and 98 45' E., and occupies an area of 2717 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 44,252, of whom more than five-sixths are Shans. The Salween river bounds it on the
east
 . The main state and the sub-state of Keng Tawng consist of two plains with a
ridge
  between them. There is much fiat
rice
  bottom, but a considerable portion consists of gently undulating plain-land. In the central plain
rice
  is the only crop. Outside this considerable quantities of
sugar
  are produced. Tobacco of a quality highly esteemed by the Shams is grown in the Nawng Wawp circle at an altitude of 3100 ft. above sea-level;
gram
 ,
thanatpet (a
leaf
  used for cigar-wrappers), and
garden
  crops are the
chief
  produce otherwise. In the outlying tracts quantities of coarse native
paper
  are manufactured from the bark of a species of mulberry, and much is exported to other parts of the Shan States.


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