Place · border trade town · India
Moreh
Also known as Moreh town
Moreh in Tengnoupal district of Manipur is the Indian terminus of the India-Myanmar border — the only officially-sanctioned land crossing between the two countries, with its Pakistani-border counterpart at Attari/Wagah. It sits on the Trans-Asian Highway (Asian Highway 1) at the 110-kilometre mark from Imphal, and from 2018 to 2020 hosted the free-movement regime that allowed 16-kilometre borderless travel for the Kuki, Naga and Chin peoples whose settlements the colonial-era line cut through. Moreh's bazaar — Burma Bazaar — handles about 80% of India's informal land trade with Myanmar in rice, cotton, areca nut and consumer electronics, and its Tamil community of about 3,500 is descended from traders expelled from Burma in the 1964 nationalisations.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.250, 94.300
Connections (2)
- Border crossingTamu
Moreh (India) and Tamu (Myanmar) are the twin towns on either side of the dry stream-bed of the Lokchao that marks the India-Myanmar border — the only officially-sanctioned land crossing between the two countries, mirror of Attari-Wagah on the Pakistan border. The crossing was closed to foreigners after the 1962 Burmese coup and reopened under the India-Myanmar Friendship Road agreement of 2001. The 2018-2020 free-movement regime allowed 16-kilometre borderless travel for the Kuki, Naga and Chin peoples whose settlements the colonial-era line cut through.
- Site adjacencyKangla Fort, Imphal
Moreh is the Indian terminus of the trans-Manipur Trans-Asian Highway segment, 110 km east of Imphal on the road from Kangla Fort through Pallel to the Lokchao border. The traffic between Imphal and Moreh crosses six-check-post security and three ethnic-conflict zones; it is the primary trade corridor between Northeast India and Southeast Asia.
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