| Kengtung Kyaingtong |
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| The Sawbwa Palace, a historic landmark, was destroyed in 1991 by the Burmese government. | |
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Kengtung
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| Country | Burma |
| Region | Shan State |
| District | Kengtung District |
| Township | Kengtung Township |
| Time zone | MST (UTC+6.30) |
Kengtung (Shan: ၵဵင်းတုင်; Burmese: ကျိုင်းတုံမြို့; MLCTS: kyuing: tum mrui. Thai:เชียงตุง , pronounced [tɕáiɴtòuɴ mjo̰]; also spelled Kyaingtong, Chiang Tung, Cheingtung, and Kengtong) is a town in Shan State, Burma. It is the principal town of Kengtung Township. It lies along National Highway 4.
There is an airport in Kengtung.
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Kengtung was founded by the grandson of King Mangrai. This migration of the Chiangmai dynasty, made in the 13th century with the idea of founding a new kingdom which called Lannathai in Chiang Mai, has resulted in Kengtung having a different type of Tai population from the rest of the Shan State.
Kengtung, like other major towns in the Shan Plateau, was home to a Shan Saopha. Kengtung was the base of the Kengtung Sawbwanate, and had a Sawbwa palace, built by Sao Kawng Kiao Intaleng in 1905.
The city was occupied by the Thai Phayap Army from 1942 until the end of the Second World War.
It is home to the Kyaingtong Degree College.
Kengtung contains several lakes. The largest, Naung Tung Lake, lies in the western part of the city, followed by Naung Kham Lake and Naung Yarng Lake to the south of the Kentung Roman Catholic Mission.
| Climate data for Kengtung | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 26.7 (80.1) |
29.2 (84.6) |
32.0 (89.6) |
33.0 (91.4) |
32.3 (90.1) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.6 (85.3) |
29.4 (84.9) |
29.6 (85.3) |
28.7 (83.7) |
27.2 (81.0) |
25.7 (78.3) |
29.48 (85.07) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 9.6 (49.3) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.0 (57.2) |
18.2 (64.8) |
21.2 (70.2) |
22.1 (71.8) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.5 (70.7) |
20.6 (69.1) |
18.6 (65.5) |
15.2 (59.4) |
11.0 (51.8) |
17.04 (62.68) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 16.0 (0.63) |
8.0 (0.315) |
16.0 (0.63) |
43.0 (1.693) |
160.0 (6.299) |
175.0 (6.89) |
236.0 (9.291) |
243.0 (9.567) |
171.0 (6.732) |
128.0 (5.039) |
79.0 (3.11) |
23.0 (0.906) |
1,298 (51.1) |
| Source: HKO | |||||||||||||