Conventional Long Name: | Loi ai |
Common Name: | Loi-ai |
Nation: | the Shan States |
Subdivision: | State |
Year Start: | Before 1814 |
Event Start: | State founded |
Year End: | 1930 |
Event End: | Merged with Hsamönghkam |
S1: | Hsamonghkam |
Flag S1: | Flag of the United Kingdom.svg |
Image Map Caption: | Loi-ai State in a map of the Shan States |
Stat Area1: | 517 |
Stat Year1: | 1901 |
Stat Pop1: | 5442 |
Loi-ai (also known as Lwe-e) was a Shan state in the Myelat region of what is today Burma. It was one of the westernmost Shan states, bordering with Yamethin district of Upper Burma. The capital was Lonpo (Aungpan) and the population was mostly Pa-O, but there were also Danu, Shan and Karen people in the area.[1]
Loi-ai was a subsidiary state of Yawnghwe, another state of the Myelat division of the Southern Shan States. Loi ai State merged with Hsamönghkam State in 1930.[2]
The rulers bore the title Ngwegunhmu.[3]