Chin Hills

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{{Infobox mountain range
| name =Chin Hills
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| highest = [[Nat Ma Taung]]
| elevation_m= 3053
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| parent = [[Patkai Range]]
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| map_caption = Location in Myanmar
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| location = [[Chin State]], [[Burma]]
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The '''Chin Hills'''<ref>"Chin Hills (Approved)" {{GEOnet2|32FA8845BB2B3774E0440003BA962ED3}}, [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]]</ref> are a range of mountains in [[Chin State]], northwestern [[Burma|Burma (Myanmar)]], that extends northward into [[India]]'s [[Manipur]] state.<ref>[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/india/txu-oclc-6614190-ng46-15.jpg "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U502, Imphal, India, NG 46-15"] U.S. Army Map Service, April 1960; [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/burma/txu-oclc-6924198-nf46-3.jpg "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, Mawlaik, Burma; India, NF 46-3"] U.S. Army Map Service, March 1960; and [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/burma/txu-oclc-6924198-nf46-7.jpg "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, Gangaw, Burma, NF 46-7"] U.S. Army Map Service, April 1958</ref>

==Geography==
The highest peak in the Chin Hills is [[Khonu Msung]], or Mount Victoria, in southern Chin State, which reaches {{convert|3053|m}}. The [[Chin Hills–Arakan Yoma montane forests]] [[ecoregion]] has diverse forests with [[pine]], [[Camellia sinensis|camellia]] and [[teak]]. [[Falam (town)|Falam]] is the largest town in the Chin Hills, lying at their southern edge.

The Chin Hills are the eastern part of the [[Patkai|Patkai Range]], which includes the [[Lushai Hills]] and runs through [[Nagaland]] in India, as well as part of Burma. The Lushai Hills are frequently discussed with the Chin Hills as the topography, people's culture and history are similar. The southern prolongation of the Chin Hills is the [[Arakan Mountains|Arakan Range (Arakan Yoma)]], stretching as well from north to south.

==History==
Historically the area of the range has been populated by the [[Chin people]] who like their neighbours to the west are a [[Laimi| Laimi people]]. In addition to [[subsistence agriculture]] the Chin raided the villages of the Burman on the plains of the [[Myittha River|Myittha]] and [[Chindwin River|Chindwin]] rivers, as well as each other.<ref name="Ireland">Ireland, Alleyne (1907) ''The province of Burma: a report prepared on behalf of the University of Chicago'' Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts, [https://books.google.com/books?id=b9ENAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA790 volume 2, page 790], {{OCLC|1889867}}</ref> In 1888, the British began a military campaign to end these raids which resulted in pacification of the province by 1896,<ref name="Ireland" /> and it was administratively added to Burma as a special division.

In the [[Second World War]] the hills formed a point of armed conflict between Japanese forces and a combined British and Indian force.<ref>https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/fraser_kenneth.pdf</ref>

==See also==
*[[Arakan Mountains]]
*[[Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120207053642/http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/geography.htm Burma - Geography]
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p42GnZ5nLHYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books, ''The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia'']
*{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Chin Hills|volume=6|page=233|short=1}}


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