Lashio

Lashio is the most important metropolis in northern Shan State, Myanmar, approximately 2 hundred kilometres north-east of Mandalay. It is situated on a low mountain spur overlooking the valley of the Yaw River. Loi Leng, the highest mountain of the Shan Hills, is positioned forty five km to the south-east of Lashio. Lashio is the place of job of Lashio Township and Lashio District; earlier than April 2010, it become also the place of business of Shan State. The population grew from about 5000 in 1960 to 88,590 in 1983. It is presently anticipated at about 130,000. The populace is made of ordinarily Shan, Chinese and Burmans.

The British colonial length on this part of the usa commenced in 1887, and the Myanmar Railways line from Mandalay reached Lashio in 1903. Before British rule Lashio was additionally the centre of authority for the northern Shan States, however the Burmese publish in the valley became close to the Nam Yao, in an old Chinese fortified camp. The Lashio valley become previously very populous; but a rebel, commenced through the sawbwa of Hsenwi, approximately ten years before the British occupation, ruined it.