Naga Self-Administered Zone

Naga Self-Administered Zone
နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ
Self-Administered Zone
Country  Burma
Region Sagaing Region
No. of Townships 3
Capital Lahe
Population (2014)[1]
 • Total 62,766
Time zone MST (UTC+6.30)

Naga Self-Administered Zone (Burmese: နာဂ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ [nàɡa̰ kòbàɪɴ ʔoʊʔtɕʰoʊʔ kʰwɪ̰ɴja̰ dèθa̰]), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution,[2] is a self-administered zone consisting of 3 townships in Sagaing Region:[3]

Those three districts were administratively part of Hkamti District.[3] Its official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010.[4][5] The zone is to be self-administered by the Naga people. Its administrative seat is the town of Lahe.[5]

In August 2016, an outbreak of measles caused the deaths of 44 children.[6][7] The outbreak may have been caused by lack measles vaccination because of the poor health infrastructure.[8] The Naga people are mainly Christian, having been proselytized in the 19th century.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sagaing Region. The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. 3–E. Naypyitaw: Ministry of Immigration and Population. May 2015. p. 17.
  2. ↑ "National and State constitutions, draft constitutions, amendments and announcements (texts): Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008) - English"
  3. 1 2 ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese). 2008.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. 1 2 Xinhua Staff (21 August 2010) "Myanmar re-designates areas under new constitution ahead of election" People's Daily Online, last accessed 5 October 2010
  6. ↑ "Measles death toll reaches 44 in Naga | Eleven Myanmar". www.elevenmyanmar.com. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "WHO doctors in Myanmar's Naga areas identify 'mystery disease' – Eastern Mirror". www.easternmirrornagaland.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "Myanmar (02): (SA) fatal, measles conf". www.promedmail.org (Archive Number: 20160806.4398118). International Society for Infectious Diseases. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "The Naga tribes of Myanmar - The Boston Globe". Retrieved 10 August 2016.

Coordinates: 26°19′46″N 95°26′41″E / 26.32944°N 95.44472°E / 26.32944; 95.44472

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