Kingdom of Pong

Kingdom of Pong
State of the ancient Shan States
1st century AD–1479

1917 map of the Burmese Shan States with Mogaung in the upper left corner
CapitalMogaung
History 
• Kingdom of Pong founded
1st century AD
• Occupied by China
1479
Succeeded by
Mongkawng

The Kingdom of Pong or Pong Kingdom was an ethnically Tai state that controlled several smaller states along the frontier of what is now Myanmar, China and Northeast Indian states of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.

It was bounded on the north by the mountain ranges that divide present-day Myanmar and Assam State, in the south by Khambat, reaching to Yunnan in the east and the Chin Hills in the west.[1] Its capital was Mogaung, known by the Shan people as Mongkawng.[2]

  1. ^ Phanjoubam Tarapot, Bleeding Manipur, Har Anand Publications (July 30, 2007) ISBN 978-8124109021
  2. ^ Naorem Sanajaoba ed. Manipur, Past and Present: The Heritage and Ordeals of a Civilization, Volume 4 p. 32