Mong Ping Township (, officially Mong Pyin Township) is a

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

of Kengtung District in the

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. The township has 2 towns- the capital town Mong Ping with 3 urban wards and Tontar with 4 urban wards. The township also has 393 villages grouped into 24

village tracts A village tract (; also spelt village-tract), also called overvillage, is a fourth-level administrative subdivision of Myanmar's rural townships. As of August 2015, there are 13,602 village tracts in Myanmar, consisting of 70,838 villages. The eq ...

. The township has one subtownship, Tontar Subtownship, an unofficial subdivision used for administrative and statistical purposes. The township was formerly part of Mong Hsat District.

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Townships of Shan State {{Shan-geo-stub