Möng Hsat was small state of the

Shan States The Shan States were a collection of minor Shan people, Shan kingdoms called ''mueang, möng'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' (''sawbwa''). In British rule in Burma, British Burma, they were analogous to the princely states of Britis ...

in what is today

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

History

It was a small dependency of

Kengtung State Kengtung (; ''Chiang Tung;'' ), known as Menggen Prefecture ( zh, 孟艮府) or Möng Khün tusi, Chiefdom or Mueng Khuen Fu (administrative division)#China, Fu (Khün language, Tai Khün: ), classical name Khemarattha, was a Shan people, ...

that had been a tract of land claimed by

Möng Nai Möng Nai, also known as Mone, was a Shan people, Shan state in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States. Its capital was the town of Mong Nai, Möng Nai. History Möng Nai was founded in 1223 or 1318 ...

but annexed by Kengtung along with

Möng Pu Möng Pu or Mong Pu is a village in Mong Ping Township, Mongsat District, Shan State, eastern Myanmar. Geography Mong Pu lies in a small valley surrounded by mountains. Loi San mountain is located about 2 km to the southeast of the town, ov ...

further to the north. The capital and residence of the ruler was Möng Hsat town. Little is known about this state except that its forests had been overexploited at the turn of the 20th century during

British Rule in Burma British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of ''Burma'' as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally i ...

.Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 17, p. 408.
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