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Nogmung

Town in Kachin State, Myanmar

Field	Value
native_name	နောင်မွန်းမြို့
official_name	Nogmung
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map	Myanmar
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Myanmar
image_skyline	Nogmung Town Panaroma.jpg
image_caption	View of Nogmung
image_map	Church in Nogmung.jpg
map_caption	Church in Nogmung
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Myanmar
subdivision_type1	Division
subdivision_name1	Kachin State
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Putao District
subdivision_type3	Township
subdivision_name3	Nogmung Township
unit_pref	Imperial
population_as_of	2005
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
population_blank2	Buddhism
population_blank2_title	Religions
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
leader_title	Mayor
timezone	MST
utc_offset	+6.30

Nogmung (); sometimes Naung Mung or Naun Mong and combinations) is the northernmost town in Myanmar, located in Kachin State with about 1,000 inhabitants as of 2006. It is the last town encountered when hiking northwards to Hkakaborazi National Park and the highest peak of Myanmar, Mt. Hkakabo Razi. Nogmung is also the gateway for Tahaundam, the northernmost village of Myanmar. Nogmung is famous for its bird diversity, and many endemic species are postulated to exist there. The placename means means "outside the country" (ၼွၵ်ႈမိူင်း) in Shan.

In 2005, the Naung Mung scimitar babbler (Jabouilleia naungmungensis) was described based on a specimen collected near Nogmung. The Smithsonian's National Zoo and the Hkakabo Razi National Park Authorities have surveyed the avifauna since 2001 in Putao, Nogmung, and northwards to Tahaundam.

References

KURABE, Keita. (2021-09-27). "Oronyms in northern Burma: Asymmetry between highland and lowland place names". Studies in Geolinguistics.
(2005). "A New Species of Scimitar-Babbler (Timalidae: Jabouilleia) From the Sub-Himalayan Region of Myanmar". The Auk.
Swen C. Renner, John H. Rappole, Peter Leimgruber, Daniel S. Kelly, Nay Myo Shwe, Thein Aung, Myint Aung. 2007. Land cover in the Northern Forest Complex of Myanmar: new insights for conservation. Oryx 41:27-37

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