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Lashio

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Lashio (lăsh`yō, ləshyō`), town, Shan state, E central Myanmar. It is a trade center and the terminus of the railroad line from Mandalay. Lashio was famous in World War II as the starting point of the Burma Road.
Lashio
a town in NE central Myanmar: starting point of the Burma Road to Chongqing, China

Lashio 

a city in the Union of Burma, Shan National State. Population, approximately 20,000. It is an important transport center on the Chinese-Burmese highway and the Mandalay-Boduin railroad. There are large deposits of polymetallic ores (mined and processed by the Boduin-Namtu Combine) and of coal. Lashio also has sawmills.



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Lashio, where the conference was held, is 240 miles north of Naypyitaw, the secure, isolated city carved out of the jungle where Than Shwe moved the capital in 2005.
 
 
 
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