Kengtung Township

Kengtung Township (also spelled Kengtong) is a township of Kengtung District in the Shan State of Burma. The principal town is Kengtung.

Demographics

The Tai here call themselves Khün; their speech contains many variations from the western Shan, and their script is entirely different.

Most of the Khuns for example would adopt Thai names, in the wats of Kengtong one would find the monks chanting their daily prayers exactly the same way as if anywhere in Thailand. The Thais have always felt Kengtung to be a part of their old country.Fact|date=March 2007

Geography

Kengtung is the largest, most mountainous, most easterly, and culturally the farthest from the Burmese, of all the Shan States. Geography makes approach to it from the rest of Burma difficult for it lies not only beyond the Salween across which no bridge has been built and whose eastern tributaries have cut no easy routes through the serried north-south ranges, but nearer again to the Mekong than to the Salween.