Hkamti District

Khamti District ခန္တီးခရိုင်
District
Coordinates: 26°00′N95°41′E / 26.000°N 95.683°E / 26.000; 95.683
Country	Myanmar
Region	Sagaing Region
No. of Townships	1
Capital	Hkamti
Time zone	UTC+6.30 (MMT)

Hkamti District or Khamti District (sometimes formerly Naga Hills District ^[1] ) is a district in northern Sagaing Region of Myanmar (Burma). Its administrative center is the town of Hkamti.

Townships

The District only contains one township - Hkamti Township. Prior to 2022, the district also included Homalin Township, which was promoted to its own district in April 2022 by the Ministry of Home Affairs ^{[2] [3]}

Prior to 2010, ^[4] it additionally controlled Lahe, Lay Shi (Lashe), and Nanyun townships, which were transferred under the 2008 Constitution ^[5] to the Naga Self-Administered Zone. The revised smaller district still has a significant minority Naga population.

Borders

Hkamti District is bordered ^[6] by:

• India to the west
• Naga Self-Administered Zone to the west and north,
• Myitkyina District and Mohnyin District of Kachin State to the east.
• Homalin District to the south,

Economy

Most people in Hkamti District practice subsistence farming. There is also a jade mine, ^[7] although most of the jade mining is nearby in Mohnyin District. ^[8]

Demographics

The district is inhabited by the Khamti, Duleng (Kachin) and Nung Rawang people.

Notes

1. "Naga Hills District" Geonames
2. "Expansion of new districts: New districts expanded in Nay Pyi Taw, regions and states". Myanmar International Television. 2 May 2022.
3. "Expansion of new districts in Nay Pyi Taw, regions and states". 2 May 2022.
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. ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese) [0]=1|2008 Constitution PDF Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
6. "Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map" Archived 2010-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
7. "2001 Gem News Archive: Oct. 29, 2001: New Burma Jade Mine" Archived 2009-06-08 at the Wayback Machine Gem News Pala International
8. Hughes, Richard W. (2000) "Burmese Jade: The Inscrutable Gem, Part I: Burma's Jade Mines" Pala International