Hkamti District

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.

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

The district consists of the two townships:

• Hkamti Township, and
• Homalin Township

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 Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map" Archived 2010-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
5. "2001 Gem News Archive: Oct. 29, 2001: New Burma Jade Mine" Archived 2009-06-08 at the Wayback Machine Gem News Pala International
6. Hughes, Richard W. (2000) "Burmese Jade: The Inscrutable Gem, Part I: Burma's Jade Mines" Pala International

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