MAWKMAI (Burmese Maukme)  , one of the largest states in the eastern division of the southern Shan States of Burma . It lies approximately between 19° 30' and 20° 30' N. and 97° 30' and 98° 15' E., and has an area of 2,787 sq. m . The central portion of the state consists of a wide plain well watered and under rice cultivation . The rest is chiefly hills in ranges running north and south . There is a good deal of teak in the state, but it has been ruinously worked . The sawbwa now works as con-tractor for government, which takes one-third of the net profits . Rice is the chief crop, but much tobacco of good quality is grown in the Langko district on the Tang river . There is also a great deal of cattle-breeding . The population in 1901 was 29,454, over two-thirds of whom were Shans and the remainder Taungthu, Burmese, Yangsek and Red Karens . The capital, MAWKMAI, stands in a fine rice plain in 20° 9' N. and 97° 25' E . It had about 150 houses when it first submitted in 1887, but was burnt out by the Red Karens in the following year . It has since recovered .

There are very fine

orange groves a few miles south of the town at Kantu-awn, called Kadugate by the Burmese .