Möngkung

Mong Kung is a Shan town in a fertile upland district watered by streams. Its name in Shan means a town producing horse saddlery, a reminder of the place of horses in the highlands. It was the seat of a Shan state bounded by Hsipaw to the north and Lai Hka to the south, with the western ranges of the Shan Hills forming part of its western boundary. Local disputes and Burmese intervention disturbed its fortunes.