Thaungdut or Thaung Thut is a village on the

Chindwin River The Chindwin River (), also known as the Ningthi River (), is a river in Myanmar and is the largest tributary of the Irrawaddy River. Sources The Chindwin originates in the broad Hukawng Valley of Kachin State of Burma, roughly , where the Tanai, ...

in Homalin District in northern

Sagaing Region Sagaing Region (, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative divisions of Myanmar, administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and longitude 94° 97' east. It is border ...

of northwestern

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 ...

. It is located next to Chaunggan. Originally, "Thaung Thut" was the Burmese name for Hsawnghsup, a Shan state in the northern Kabaw Valley. Its headquarters was moved to the present village of Thaungdut on the bank of the

sometime during the rule of Ava (most likely during the Konbaung period). The name Thaungdut is now applied to only the village.

History

Originally, Thaungdut (Hsawnghsup) was one 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 ...

ruled by Shan

saopha Saopha (), also spelled Sawbwa, was the title used by hereditary rulers of Shan states in Upper Myanmar. Chaopha and Chao Fa were similar titles used by the hereditary Tai rulers in mainland Southeast Asia and the Ahom kingdom in India. Nam ...

Demographics

Thaungdut has a population of 2,241 people (1,043 males and 1,198 females) living in 441 households.The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census – Homalin Township Report
Department of Population, October 2017, page 9.

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External links

Maplandia World Gazetteer
Populated places in Hkamti District Homalin Township {{Hkamti-geo-stub