Self-administered zone

A self-administered area (Burmese: ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ, romanized: ypaingôkchôkkwangayadetha) is an administrative subdivision in Myanmar (Burma). There are five self-administered zones and one self-administered division.

Description

The self-administered division (SAD) exists at an administrative level half-a-step below that of states, regions and the union territory, and the self-administrative zones (SAZ) exists at the district level.^[1] Each self-administered area is administered by a "leading body" whose members are those members of their respective state and regional hluttlaw elected within the division and areas. The chief minister of a state or region formally appoints the chair upon selection by the leading body of the division or zones.^[2] The self-administered areas are formed on territory under de facto control of the country's ethnic armed organisations.^[3]

Self-administered zones and self-administered division

Self-Administered Zones and Self-Administered Division

Flag	Name	Burmese	Capital	Region	Population	Area (km2)	Type
	Danu Self-Administered Zone	ဓနုကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Pindaya	Shan State	161,835[4]		Self-Administered Zone
	Kokang Self-Administered Zone	ကိုးကန့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Laukkai	Shan State	123,733[4]		Self-Administered Zone
	Naga Self-Administered Zone	နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Lahe	Sagaing Region	116,828[5]	7,023.5[6]	Self-Administered Zone
	Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone	ပလောင်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Namhsan	Shan State	110,805[4]		Self-Administered Zone
	Pa'O Self-Administered Zone	ပအိုဝ့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Hopong	Shan State	380,427[4]		Self-Administered Zone
	Wa Self-Administered Division	ဝကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရတိုင်း	Hopang	Shan State	558,000[4]		Self-Administered Division

See also

• Administrative divisions of Myanmar
• Autonomous administrative division