{"id":17340,"date":"2023-11-24T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T03:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17340"},"modified":"2025-04-05T03:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:11:15","slug":"shan-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shan-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Shan State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Shan State<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0state in Myanmar.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0borders China to the north,\u00a0Laos to the east,\u00a0Thailand to the south,\u00a0and five administrative divisions of Myanmar in the west.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km2, almost a\u00a0quarter of the total area of Myanmar.<\/li>\n<li>The state\u00a0gets its name from the Burmese name\u00a0for the Tai people: \u201cShan people\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Shan constitute the majority among several ethnic groups\u00a0that inhabit the area. The Shan\u00a0are Theravada Buddhists and\u00a0have their own written language and literature.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Thanlwin River (also known as the Salween\/Namkhong)\u00a0cuts across the state, which is also\u00a0home to Inle Lake, the second-largest natural expanse of water in Myanmar.<\/li>\n<li>Shan is\u00a0largely rural, with\u00a0only three cities\u00a0of significant size:\u00a0Lashio, Kengtung, and the capital, Taunggyi.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Shan State, with its many ethnic groups, is\u00a0home to several armed ethnic armies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While the\u00a0military government has signed ceasefire agreements\u00a0with most groups,\u00a0vast areas of the state, especially those east of the Thanlwin River, remain outside the central government\u2019s control and in\u00a0recent years have come under heavy ethnic-Han-Chinese economic and political influence.\u00a0Other areas are under the control of military groups, such as the Shan State Army.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Theravada Buddhism?<\/h3>\n<p>Theravada Buddhism is one of the oldest forms of Buddhism that traces its roots back to the earliest teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became known as the Buddha. &#8220;Theravada&#8221; translates to &#8220;Teaching of the Elders&#8221; or &#8220;Ancient Teaching,&#8221; reflecting its commitment to preserving the original teachings of the Buddha.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/myanmar-exports-to-china-increasingly-difficult-due-to-conflict\/articleshow\/105447352.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Myanmar exports to China increasingly difficult due to conflict<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shan State is a state in Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}