Muang Sam Tai

Muang Sam Tai lies in the highland country of Houaphanh, among valleys leading towards Vietnam. It was one of the six muang traditionally associated with Houaphanh, whose rulers maintained connections with both Lao and Vietnamese powers. A charter written on cloth in 1742 preserves evidence of the local administration and its subjects. In the early nineteenth century the southern Houaphanh country, including Sam Tai, was incorporated into the Vietnamese frontier administration.