Saharat Thai Doem
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Saharat Thai Doem สหรัฐไทยเดิม |
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| Subdivision of Thailand | |||||
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| Capital | Kengtung | ||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||
| • | Handover of the territory by the Japanese | 18 August 1943 | |||
| • | Reintegration of the territories into Burma | 15 August 1945 | |||
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Saharat Thai Doem (Thai: สหรัฐไทยเดิม "Unified former Thai Territories") is a former administrative division of Thailand. It encompassed the parts of Shan State of British Burma annexed by the Thai government after the Japanese invasion of Burma.
By means of this annexation Axis-aligned Thailand expanded northwards to the 22nd parallel north and gained a border with China. Chiang Tung (Kengtung) was the administrative headquarters of the province.
Thailand was still allied with Japan when the war ended, but the United States proposed a solution. In 1946 Thailand agreed to hand back the territories occupied during Japanese presence in the country as the price for admission to the United Nations, consequently all wartime claims against Siam were dropped and the country received a substantial package of US aid. Then the Thai-occupied region in Eastern Shan state returned to its pre-war status and became again part of Burma.
The territory of the Northern Thai province was mountainous, except for a few small areas, such as the intermontane basin of Kengtung. The Salween River marked the western border of the new province. The northernmost point was the frontier town of Pangsang.
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