Laungshe

Laungshe lies in the Yaw country of western Burma, among valleys between the Chin Hills and the Pondaung range. Burmese chronicles list it among the territories associated with the kingdom of Pinya in the fourteenth century. The surrounding hills and streams separate the Yaw settlements from the dry Irrawaddy plain, while passes lead west into the Chin uplands. Villages in this region occupied a frontier between the central Burmese kingdoms and the mountain communities beyond them.