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A self-administered zone is an administrative subdivision in Myanmar (Burma). There are five self-administered zones and one self-administered division.

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Self-administered zones and self-administered division

Self-Administered Zones and Self-Administered Division SAZs & SAD of Burma.png
Self-Administered Zones and Self-Administered Division
Flag Name Burmese CapitalRegionPopulationArea (km2)Type
Flag of the Danu people.svg Danu Self-Administered Zone ဓနုကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Pindaya Shan State 161,835 [1] Self-Administered Zone
Flag of the Kokang Democracy and Unity Party.png Kokang Self-Administered Zone ကိုးကန့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Laukkai Shan State 123,733 [1] Self-Administered Zone
Flag of Naga Self-Administered Zone.png Naga Self-Administered Zone နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Lahe Sagaing Region Self-Administered Zone
Flag of the Palaung people.svg Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone ပလောင်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Namhsan Shan State Self-Administered Zone
Pa-o nationality flag.svg Pa'O Self-Administered Zone ပအိုဝ့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ Hopong Shan State Self-Administered Zone
Flag of Wa State.svg Wa Self-Administered Division ဝကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရတိုင်း Hopang Shan State Self-Administered Division

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  1. 1 2 Shan State. The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. Vol. 3-M. Naypyitaw: Ministry of Immigration and Population. May 2015. p. 16.