The Chin Hills[1] are a range of mountains in Chin State, northwestern Burma (Myanmar), that extends northward into India's Manipur state.[2]
^"Chin Hills (Approved)" Chin Hills at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^"1:250,000 topographic map, Series U502, Imphal, India, NG 46-15" U.S. Army Map Service, April 1960; "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, Mawlaik, Burma; India, NF 46-3" U.S. Army Map Service, March 1960; and "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, Gangaw, Burma, NF 46-7" U.S. Army Map Service, April 1958
peak in the ChinHills is Khonu Msung, or Mount Victoria, in southern Chin State, which reaches 3,053 metres (10,016 ft). The ChinHills–Arakan Yoma montane...
at 58%, according to a 2017 report. Situated in a far hilly region, ChinHills was traditionally autonomous and far from their neighboring powers like...
The ChinHills Congress was a political party in Burma. The party was established in 1951 by Za Hre Lian. It contested the 1951–52 general elections as...
Myanmar. The Tashons were the most powerful tribes in the north of the ChinHills prior to the British Empire's annexation of the region. Their influence...
all of the tribes residing in the Arakan Mountains and ChinHills. The newfound democracy of Chin State ended abruptly in 1962 with the onset of the military...
the tribes inhabiting the Lushai Hills region to the south and southwest of Manipur (modern Mizoram as well as Chin State). Over time, the British came...
(also called Pawi people) mainly inhabit the southern parts of ChinHills in Myanmar's Chin State, in the townships of Falam, Thantlang and Hakha. They are...
Christianity slowly spread through ChinHills and the ChinHills Baptist Association was formed in 1907. The ChinHills Baptist Association comprised Baptists...
This is a list of all the ultra-prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Mainland Southeast Asia. All values below are...
INA's Subhas Brigade, led by Shah Nawaz Khan, reached the edge of the ChinHills below Tiddim and Fort White at the end of March. From this position, the...
in the north. They include the Naga Hills, the ChinHills, and the Patkai range which includes the Lushai Hills. The mountain chain is submerged in the...
areas. The umbrella term "Kuki-Chin-Mizo" is often used to encompass the different ethnic groups inhabiting the Chinhills and surrounding regions. [verification...
and the Rann of Kutch salt marshes. In the far northeast, the ChinHills and Kachin Hills, deeply forested mountainous regions, separate India from Burma...
their clan names such as Seipui, Saihmun and Bochung. The hills and difficult terrains of ChinHills forced division into several villages and ethnic diaspora...
40,000 and 50,000. Their population makes the Daai-Chin the majority tribe of the Southern ChinHills. The Dai land was an independent country until the...
Churachandpur district of Manipur). In the ChinHills region, according to him, they were known as Tedim Chins, and they included the Kamhau-Suktes. According...
is a term to denote the ethnolinguistically related speakers of the Kuki-Chin languages who primarily inhabit northeastern India, western Myanmar, and...
(in colonial times the Lushai Hills) in India. Members of many subgroups, especially speakers of the Central Kuki-Chin languages have joined and adopted...
was a leader of the Chin people in Myanmar. Two years after the British Indian Army invaded and conquered Chin State's ChinHills in the late nineteenth...
Southeast Asia. Its claimed territory encompasses Myanmar's Chin State. It controls nearly all of the Chin State in western Myanmar, along the borders with Bangladesh...
Hebius venningi, commonly known as the ChinHills keelback or Venning's keelback, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic...
its many sub-groups) in Burma's 1931 census after being absent in the ChinHills gazette of 1896. In 1943, the Zanniat tribal groups of eastern Falam Township...
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