Möng Hsat

This article is about one of the former Shan States. For the present-day administrative division, see Mong Hsat Township. For the town, see Mong Hsat.

Möng Hsat was small state of the Shan States in what is today Burma.

Möng Hsat
State of the Shan States
17th century–1959
Möng Hsat in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map
Capital	Monghsat
History
• State founded	17th century
• Abdication of the last ruler	1959
Preceded by Succeeded by Möng Nai Shan State

History

It was a small dependency of Kengtung State^[1] that had been a tract of land claimed by Möng Nai but annexed by Kengtung along with Möng Pu further to the north. The capital and residence of the ruler was Möng Hsat town.^[2]

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.^[3]