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Shan Hills
The Shan Hills ((ビルマ語:ရှမ်းရိုးမ), (タイ語:ฉานโยมา); ''Shan Yoma''), also known as Shan Highland, is a vast mountainous zone that extends through Yunnan to Burma and Thailand. The whole region is made up of numerous mountain ranges separated mostly by narrow valleys as well as a few broader intermontane basins. The ranges in the area are aligned in such a way that they link to the foothills of the Himalayas further to the northwest.
The highest point is Loi Leng, at 2,673 m high.〔(Loi Leng, Myanmar )〕 Other peaks are 2,565 m Mong Ling Shan,〔(Mong Ling Shan, Myanmar )〕 2,565 m Doi Inthanon and 2,563 m Loi Pangnao. All are ultra prominent peaks of Southeast Asia.〔(Loi Pangnao (mountain) - Region: Shan State, Myanmar )〕
==Etymology==
The name of the massif or system of ranges, is derived from the Shan State and its peoples, said in its turn to be derived from the word "Siam",〔Sarma, Satyendra Nath, ''Assamese Literature,'' Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (1976)〕 that occupies most of the Shan Highland area.
Since it was relatively unexplored until recent times, the Shan mountainous region was referred to as the "Shan Plateau" in geographic works of the British colonial period,〔(Old maps of Shan Plateau )〕〔 a name that is still sometimes used.〔(Shan Plateau, Encyclopædia Britannica )〕 However, since the whole area lacks the expanses of relatively flat high terrain which are the main characteristic of a plateau, this label is rather incongruous.〔(Peter H. Molnar, ''Plateau (Landform)'', Encyclopædia Britannica )〕
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