Hopang Township
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Hopang Township is a township
Township
The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. Township is generally associated with an urban area. However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban...

 of Kunlong District
Kunlong District
Kunlong District is a district of the Shan State in Myanmar. It consists of 2 towns and 458 villages. The main road of the District, Hsenwi-Kunlong-Chinshwehaw road, is 66 miles long. -Townships:The district contains the following townships:...

 in the Shan State
Shan State
Shan State is a state of Burma . Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Burma in the west. Largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km², almost a quarter of the total...

 of Burma. The principal town is Hopang
Hopang
Hopang is the principal town of Hopang Township of Shan State. Its coordination is 23 25' 00" N and 98 46' 00" E....

. It is one of the 6 townships of Wa Self-Administered Division
Wa Self-Administered Division
Wa Self-Administered Division , as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution, consists of Hopang, Mongmao, Pangwaun , Namphan , Matman and Pangsang townships in Shan State. Its official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010...

. It became part of Hopang District
Hopang District
Hopang District is a district of Shan State, Myanmar. It was set up in 2011 and consists of following townships.*Hopang Township*Mongmao Township*Pangwaun Township*Namphan Township*Pangsang Township*Metman Township*Panlong Subtownship*Namtit Subtownship...

 instead of Kunlong District in 2011.

The 3 main routes which link Hopang and other parts are 804 mile long Hopang-Lashio
Lashio
Lashio is the largest town in northern Shan State, Myanmar, about northeast of Mandalay. It is situated on a low mountain spur overlooking the valley of the Nam Yao river. The population grew from around 5000 in 1960 to 88,590 in 1983. It is currently estimated at around 130,000.Lashio is the...

-Mandalay
Mandalay
Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Located north of Yangon on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, the city has a population of one million, and is the capital of Mandalay Region ....

-Taunggyi
Taunggyi
-Transportation:The main access to Taunggyi is by road. A railway line that passes through Taunggyi was recently built in 1995, but at the moment it offers no passenger service. Regular railway passenger service to the rest of the country is through the town of Shwenyaung, twelve miles to the...

-Mongpyin
Mong Ping Township
Mong Ping Township is a township of Monghsat District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Mong Ping....

-Matman Road, the 343 mile long Hopang-Lashio-Tangyan
Tangyan
Tangyan may refer to:*Tang Yan, a Chinese actor*Tangyan, Burma, in Shan State...

-Panghsan-Matman Road and the 257 mile long Hopang-Mongmao
Mongmao
Mongmao is the principal town of Mongmao Township of Shan State.Rubber finishing factories were constructed in Mongmao as like in Pangsang and Namtit....

-Panghsan-Matman Road.

Its total population before 1995 was 70,720 and Wa nationals were 24,024.

There are 3,713 acres of rubber plantation in 2007.
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