Hkamti District

Khamti District
District
Khamti District Location in Burma
Coordinates: 26°00′N 95°41′E / 26.000°N 95.683°E / 26.000; 95.683Coordinates: 26°00′N 95°41′E / 26.000°N 95.683°E / 26.000; 95.683
Country	Burma
Region	Sagaing Region
No. of Townships	3
Capital	Singkaling Hkamti
Time zone	MST (UTC+6.30)

Hkamti District or Khamti District (sometimes Naga Hills District^[1]) is a district in northern Sagaing Division of Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative center is the town of Singkaling Hkamti. The district consists of the two townships: Hkamti and Homalin. Prior to 2010,^[2] it additionally controlled Lahe, Lay Shi (Lashe), and Nanyun townships, which were transferred under the 2008 Constitution^[3] to the Naga Self-Administered Zone. The revised smaller district still has a significant minority Naga population.

Borders

Hkamti District is bordered^[4] by:

• India to the west
• Naga Self-Administered Zone to the west and north,
• Myitkyina District and Mohnyin District of Kachin State to the east.
• Katha District to the southeast, and
• Mawlaik District and Tamu District to the south,

Economy

Most people in Hkamti District practice subsistence farming. There is also a jade mine,^[5] although most of the jade mining is nearby in Mohnyin District.^[6]

Notes

1. ↑ "Naga Hills District" Geonames
2. ↑ "တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ". Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
3. ↑ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese) [0]=1|2008 Constitution PDF
4. ↑ "Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map" Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
5. ↑ "2001 Gem News Archive: Oct. 29, 2001: New Burma Jade Mine" Gem News Pala International
6. ↑ Hughes, Richard W. (2000) "Burmese Jade: The Inscrutable Gem, Part I: Burma's Jade Mines" Pala International

External links

Sagaing Region
Capital: Sagaing
Hkamti District	Hkamti Township (Singkaling Hkamti) Homalin Township (Homalin)
Kale District	Kale Township (Kale) Kalewa Township (Kalewa) Mingin Township (Mingin)
Katha District	Banmauk Township (Banmauk) Indaw Township (Indaw) Katha Township (Katha) Kawlin Township (Kawlin) Pinlebu Township (Pinlebu) Htigyaing Township (Htigyaing) Wuntho Township (Wuntho)
Mawlaik District	Mawlaik Township (Mawlaik) Paungbyin Township (Paungbyin)
Monywa District	Ayadaw Township (Ayadaw) Budalin Township (Budalin) Chaung-U Township (Chaung-U) Monywa Township (Monywa)
Sagaing District	Myaung Township (Myaung) Myinmu Township (Myinmu) Sagaing Township (Sagaing)
Shwebo District	Kanbalu Township (Kanbalu) Khin-U Township (Khin-U) Kyunhla Township (Kyunhla) Shwebo Township (Shwebo) Taze Township (Taze) Wetlet Township (Wetlet) Ye-U Township (Ye-U) Tabayin Township (Tabayin)
Tamu District	Tamu Township (Tamu)
Yinmabin District	Kani Township (Kani) Pale Township (Pale) Salingyi Township (Salingyi) Yinmabin Township (Yinmabin)
Naga Self-Administered Zone	Lahe Township (Lahe) Leshi Township (Leshi) Nanyun Township (Nanyun)