Kayin

Kayin State is a country of Myanmar. The capital metropolis is Hpa-An, also spelled Pa-An. The relief of Kayin State is mountainous with the Dawna Range jogging alongside the state in a NNW - SSE course and the southern quit of the Karen Hills within the northwest. It is bordered by way of Mae Hong Son, Tak, and Kanchanaburi provinces of Thailand to the east; Mon State and Bago Region to the west and south; Mandalay Region, Shan State and Kayah State to the north. The vicinity that paperwork state-of-the-art Kayin State turned into a part of successive Burmese kingdoms for the reason that formation of the Pagan Empire in mid-11th century.

During the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, lots of the location belonged to the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, while the northern a part of the region belonged to Taungoo,a vassal state of Ava Kingdom. The place became a part of Taungoo Dynasty and Konbaung Dynasty from sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The British seized the southern third of modern Kayin State after the First Anglo-Burmese War, and the rest after the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852.