Kokang
Proper noun
Meaning
Kokang
A region of Myanmar.
Examples
Between 20,000 and 30,000 ex-poppyfarmers left the Kokang region as a result of the ban in 2002. citation People from the Wa region, where the ban was implemented in 2005, fled to areas where growing opium is still possible.
The state is home to Shan, Bamar, Pa-O, Palaung, Lahu, Danu, Kokang, Akha, Wa, Kachin and other groups with ethnicity-based political parties.
A member of an election police unit in the Kokang region has told that his superior cast an advance vote on their behalf.
Only the USDP and Shan State Kokang Democratic Party contested seats in Laukkai and Konkyan, the two townships that make up the Kokang Self-Administered Zone.