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Shans

Shans is the plural of Shan.

Meaning of Shan

Noun

Shan (plural Shans or Shan)

  1. A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.
    • The Thai proper are related to the Shans of Burma, the Siamese of Thailand and the Lao of Indochina. The Chinese segment of the Thai ethnic group is settled in Yünnan Province, where it numbers 580,000. It constitutes the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Autonomous Chou in the southern part of the province and...1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42

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Questions about Shans

What is Shans the plural of?
Shans is the plural of Shan.

Words near Shans in the dictionary

  1. shannot
  2. shanny
  3. Shannyn
  4. Shanqella
  5. Shanquella
  6. Shans
  7. Shanscrit
  8. Shanshan
  9. Shansi
  10. Shanskrit
  11. shant

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