This missionary work brought education, development, social and economic changes, and health improvement to the Chin people. Later other missionaries joined them and did extensive mission works throughout the Chin Hills and converted most of the Northern Chin State to Christianity within a century. The first American Baptist missionary couple, Arthur Carson (1860-1908) and his wife Laura (1858-1942) who arrived in Hakha on Maopened a mission station. The British government later established a sub-divisional office and Hakha became a town a few years later. The British occupied Hakha on 19 January 1890, as part of their operation to 'subdue the wild tribes' in the Arakan Hills Division, as the area was then called. The area was ruled by local chiefs for many generations and it consisted of more than 600 houses when the British troops arrived in Hakha in 1889. Hakha was founded around 1400 by the Lai ethnic group. Hakha is in the center of Chin State and it is connected with Thantlang, Falam, Gangaw, and Matupi by truck roads. Another road runs from the middle of the city, for a short while, forming the foot of U.

There is only one main road running along the middle of the city, in a curved U, and the whole city is built along this road. It is estimated that Hakha has enough land and full capacity to extend to as ten times its current township area.Īs Chin State is quite hilly, Hakha is built on the slope of a large mountain, in a U shape.

Although it is relatively small in land area, it is the largest city of Chin State, as well as its capital city, with the plateau significantly larger than that of other towns in Chin State. The city of Hakha is more than 1,867 metres (6,125 ft) above sea level, founded on a small highland plateau. Hakha is located in the northeast of Chin State, with a total area of about 12.50 square miles (32.4 km 2). Hakha ( Burmese: ဟားခါးမြို့ MLCTS: ha: hka: mrui., pronounced formerly rendered Haka ) is the capital of Chin State in Myanmar.

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