Zogam
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 Zo-inhabited areas |
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| Language | Zo language |
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| Official written language | Latin script or English alphabet |
| Official script | Pau Cin Hau script |
| National day | 20 February (Zomi National Day). |
| Currency | Dangka |
| Location | Chin State of Burma, and part of Plain Chins (lower lands), and Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh until it reaches to the Bay of Zogam Bay of Bengal, and parts of Manipur and the whole Mizoram |
| Today part of |
 India Myanmar Bangladesh
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| Population | 5 million (2014). |
| Internet TLD | .zo |
Zogam (or Zo country) in English commonly known as Chin Hills,Lushai Hills,Kuki Hills, is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Zo people, is the name of the traditional homeland of the Zo people, which lies in the northwest corner of the Mainland Southeast Asia landmass. It is bounded in the East by Burma, North by India and in the West and South by Bangladesh. The country is made up of many hill ranges, and is known for its rich bio-diversity. Its territory, approximately 160,000 square kilometres (60,000 sq mi) in size, in Myanmar, India and Bangladesh. It is the traditional home of the Zomi, who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.
It does not include Asho settlements in Lower Burma and Masho settlements in the Arakan (Burma). The area extends from latitude 25° 30' North in the Somra tracts facing Mount Saramati, and in Nagaland across the Namtakik River and the North Cachar Hills, to about 20° 30' North Latitude. The longitudinal extension is between 92° 10' East and 94° 20' east. The North-South length of the Zoram is roughly 560 kilometres (350 mi) and East-West is generally about 190 kilometres (120 mi) wide.
One Zo folksong delineates the area of Zogam as follows:
“Penlehpi leh Kangtui minthang,
A tua tong Zota kual sung chi ua;
Khang Vaimang leh tuan a pupa
Tongchiamna Kangtui minthang aw”
Translation:
This old folk song tells of the area of the Zomi ancestral homeland, for Penlehpi is a Burmese word for the Bay of Bengal and Kangtui is identified with Tuikang (Chindwin River).
Zogam is within the land inhabited by the Zo State in Myanmar and further the land inhabited by the Zomi in India and Bangladesh. Chinland is the founding name for the whole Zomi inhabited areas of land spread across three political and separate country/international boundaries. Lairam is another name used by the townships the Southern Chin State in Myanmar. Zogam tributary tribes who too called their land according to their own dialects. And all of them put together makes up a Greater Chinmi or Zomi(i.e. Zo People). Zogam covers
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