Wuntho

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Wuntho was a native state of Upper Burma when Burma, now called Myanmar, was under British control. After the British annexed Upper Burma in 1885, Wuntho became a refuge for rebels and Dacoit leaders until in 1891, when a force of 1,800 British soldiers under General Sir George Wolseley occupied the town of Wuntho. In 1892 the state was formally annexed by the British and incorporated into the District of Katha. It was classed by the Burmese as a Shan state, but was never on the same footing as the true Shan states.

Wuntho had an area of around 2,400 square miles with 150,000 inhabitants and lay midway between the Ayeyarwady River and Chindwin River.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.