Maps of the Greater Wa-speaking Area

Updated 2006-06-23

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South East Asia regional maps showing language data

• Small map of South East Asia with branches of Mon-Khmer indicated (including Palaungic/Waic branch)
• Larger and more detailed map of South East Asia with branches of Mon-Khmer indicated (courtesy of Prof. Paul Sidwell) Some Palaungic and Wa-speaking areas not included, especially in Myanmar Shan state in Kengtung area and southern areas of Wa immigration since 1999.
• Map showing language distribution of northeast Myanmar, Yunnan China, and northern Thailand, with Parauk Wa in the center. (courtesy of Dr. Stephen Huffman)
• Map of South East Asia with areas with some Wa speakers indicated

Chinese maps

• Detailed map showing distribution of minority nationalities in Yunnan, China. Wa speakers are indicated by red "gingham" cross-hatching. (from Wazu shehui lishi diaocha, Vol. 2, following title page) (JPEG, Big!- 1754KB)
• Detailed map showing distribution of Wa speakers in Yunnan, China (from Wazu jianshi, preceding p.1)
• Map showing three main dialect groupings of Wa speakers in Yunnan, China, as well as additional sub-dialects. Smaller 300dpi version (785KB) and larger, more readable, 600dpi version. (1589KB) The Ba Raog (Paraok) dialect group, the basis for standard Wa, with approximately 180,000 speakers in 1980, is shown in the center with horizontal shadings; the Va dialect group, with approximately 30,000 speakers in 1980, is shown to the north, with diagonal shading; the Ava dialect group, with approximately 60,000 speakers in 1980, is shown to the south, with vertical shadings (from Wayu jianzhi, p.101).
• Yunnansheng Jiaotong Tuce, pp. 33-34, Simao Diqu (JPEG, Big!-1165KB)
  (Chinese-language map of Simao prefecture, Yunnan, China from Atlas of Yunnan Province, including Wa-speaking Menglian, Ximeng, and Lancang counties)
• Yunnansheng Jiaotongtu (JPEG, Big!-3736KB)
  (Chinese-language 2004 transportation map of Yunnan province, China, including most of the province between Kunming and the Myanmar border. Or a smaller portion limited to the central Wa-speaking region (334KB).

Myanmar/Burmese Maps

• Small map of Shan State, Myanmar, showing the traditional Wa-speaking areas of Myanmar to the northeast; the areas of Wa immigration since 1999 in the southeast along the border with Thailand and Laos; the United Wa State Army (UWSA) capital at Pang Hsang (Pangsang on the map); and transportation links into the Wa areas from the south. (JPEG, 155KB)
• Large, detailed English-language map of Shan State, Myanmar (JPEG, Big!-1831KB)
• Burmese-language map of Myanmar (JPEG, Big!-2207KB)
• Burmese-language map of Shan State, Myanmar (JPEG, Big!-2053KB)
• One city map of Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar (GIF-469KB)
• Another city map of Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar (GIF-249KB)
• City map of Tachileik, Shan State, Myanmar (GIF-233KB)
• Multimap.com map of northwest Wa territory (JPEG-91KB)
• Multimap.com map of southwest Wa territory (JPEG-91KB)
• Collins map of Wa territory (JPEG-119KB)
• Map of Northern Shan State, Myanmar, from www.travel-burma.net/bilder/maps (© 2001 Kurt Schroeder) (GIF-168KB)
• Map of north-south trade routes in Shan State, Myanmar (GIF-62KB)
• Maps and Appendices from the Lahu National Development Organization book Unsettling Moves
• UNODC map of Wa Special Region 2 (2006) (JPEG-247KB)
• British War Office 1944 map of Burma, "Wa States" area: smaller area (JPEG-192KB) larger area (JPEG, Big!-1173KB)

Maps showing topographical features

• Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Dixingtu (JPEG, Big!-1995KB)
  (Detail from Chinese-language topographic map of China and Northern SE Asia, including the greater northern Mon-Khmer-speaking region)
• Portions of pilotage chart for Myanmar-Yunnan area: southeast Wa area, centered on Menglian, Yunnan, China (JPEG, 2439KB); and northwest Wa area, centered on Cangyuan, Yunnan, China (JPEG, 2915KB) (TPC Series, J-10B, ca. 1970). (2915KB)
• Burma map, ca. 1940's
  Shan States area (JPEG, Big!-1594KB)
  eastern Burma and northwest Thailand (JPEG, Big!-2165KB)

Other miscellaneous maps

• Map of Chiang Rai City and Province, Thailand Also includes maps of other towns, including Maesai. (PDF-144KB)
• City map of Maesai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand (GIF-176KB)