Self-administered zone

A self-administered zone (Burmese: ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ, romanized: kopaingokchoakkwingyadetha) or self-administered division (Burmese: ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရတိုင်း, romanized: kopaingokchoakkwingyataing) is an administrative subdivision of a a state or a region 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
Self-Administered Division
No. Flag NameBurmeseCapital Districts Townships Population
Within Shan State:
1. Wa Self-Administered Division ဝကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရတိုင်း Hopang Hopang Hopang, Mongmao, Panwai, 558,000
Metman Nahpan, Metman, Pangsang (Pankham)
Self-Administered Zones
No. Flag NameBurmeseCapital Townships Population
Within Sagaing Region:
1. Naga Self-Administered Zone နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Lahe Leshi, Lehe, Namyun 116,828
Within Shan State:
2. Danu Self-Administered Zone ဓနုကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Pindaya Ywangan, Pindaya 161,835
3. Kokang Self-Administered Zone ကိုးကန့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Laukkai Konkyan, Laukkai 123,733
4. Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone ပလောင်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Namhsan Namhsan, Manton 110,805
5. Pa'O Self-Administered Zone ပအိုဝ့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Hopong Hopong, Hshihseng, Pinlaung 380,427

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Summary of the Myanmar P-Code version- 9.2 Mar 2020" (PDF). MIMU. Myanmar Information Management Unit. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Xison, Hamish; Jolene, Cindy; Saw, Kyi Pyar Chit; Lynn, Thet Aung; Arnold, Matthew. "STATE AND REGION GOVERNMENTS IN MYANMAR, Policy Dialogue Brief Series No. 1" (PDF). The Asia Foundation. The Asia Foundation. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "Asymmetrical Federalism in Myanmar: A Modern Mandala System?" (PDF). Yusof Ishak Institute. ISEAS. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
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