Möng Pu State

This article is about the former state. For the town, see Mong Pu.

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

Möng Pu
State of the Shan States
17th century–1959
Möng Pu in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map
Capital	Mong Pu
History
• Founded as vassal state of Kengtung	17th century
• Abdication of the last ruler	1959
Preceded by Succeeded by Möng Nai Shan State

History

Möng Pu 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 Monghsat further to the south. The capital and residence of the ruler was Möng Pu town.^[2]

Little is known about this state except that its forests, which included valuable teak, had been overexploited at the turn of the 20th century during British Rule in Burma.^[3] Loi San mountain is located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the southeast of the town, overlooking the Möng Pu valley.^[4]