Place · border trade town · Myanmar
Tamu
Also known as Tamu Township
Tamu in Sagaing Region is the Myanmar side of the Moreh-Tamu crossing — the twin town across the dry stream-bed of the Lokchao that marks the border. The town sits at the end of the Yangon-Mandalay-Kalewa-Tamu truck road and was the terminus of the Allied XIV Army's advance into Burma in 1944-45 during World War II. After the 1962 Burmese military coup it was closed to foreigners for forty years; it reopened as part of the India-Myanmar Friendship Road agreement of 2001. Tamu's rebuilt sarai-market handles the Myanmar end of the Burma Bazaar trade and is the staging town for Indian pilgrims to Bagan and Mandalay.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.211, 94.310
Connections (1)
- Border crossingMoreh
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.
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