Tachileik: Difference between revisions

| settlement_type = Town

| native_name = {{lang|shn|ၼွင်တၶျီႇလီႇ}}<br/>{{lang|my|တာချီလိတ်မြို့}}

| official_name = Tacchileik

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| pushpin_map = Burma

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in BurmaMyanmar

| image_skyline = Wat Phra Dhatu Doi Wao วัดพระธาตุดอยเวา (October 2021) - img 07.jpg

| image_caption = Skyline of Tachileik on the [[Daen Lao Range]], seen from Thailand's {{ill|Wat Phra That Doi Wao|th|วัดพระธาตุดอยเวา}}

| image_map =

| map_caption =

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Myanmar}}

| subdivision_type1 = [[Administrative divisions of BurmaMyanmar|DivisionState]]

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Shan State}}

| subdivision_type2 = Admin.&nbsp;district[[Districts of Myanmar|District]]

| subdivision_name2 = [[Tachileik District|Tachileik]]

| subdivision_type3 = Admin.&nbsp;township[[Townships of Myanmar|Township]]

| subdivision_name3 = [[Tachileik Township]]

| unit_pref = Imperial

| area_total_km2 =

| population = 51,553

| population_as_of = 2014

| population_blank1 = [[Shan people|Shan]]

| population_blank1_title = Ethnicities

| population_blank2 = [[Buddhism]]

| population_blank2_title = Religions

| population_density_km2 = auto

| coordinates = {{coord|20|27|10|N|99|53|45|E|region:MM|display=inline,title}}

'''Tachileik''' (also spelt '''Tachilek'''; {{lang-langx|my|တာချီလိတ်}}, {{IPA-my|tà tɕʰì leɪʔ|}}; {{lang-langx|shn|တႃႈၶီႈလဵၵ်း}}, {{IPA-shn|tɑ᷆.kʰi᷆.lék|}}; {{lang-langx|th|ท่าขี้เหล็ก}}, {{RTGS|''Tha Khilek''}}, {{IPA|th|tʰâː.kʰîː.lèk|}}) is a [[border town]] in [[Shan State]] of eastern [[Myanmar]]. It is the administrative seat of [[Tachileik Township]] and [[Tachileik District]] and most populated city in eastern Shan State with 51,553 residents per 2014 census count, ahead of [[Kengtung|Kyaing Tong]], but only 4th statewide.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://citypopulation.de/Myanmar-Cities.html| title = Myanmar: Regions, States, Major Cities & Towns - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information}}</ref> It faces [[Mae Sai]] in Thailand, and is home to one of Myanmar's seven official [[border trade]] posts with Thailand.

Tachileik was a border crossing probably used in the opium trade from the [[Golden CircleTriangle (south-eastSoutheast Asia)|Golden Triangle]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050209023855/http://www.pbase.com/tsechien/into_burma_ here]</ref> and was the town that the drug lord [[Khun Sa]] used to live in.<ref name="Chien">Chien, Choo Tse (2004) [http://www.pbase.com/tsechien/into_burma_ "Border Areas & Into Burma Photo Gallery"]</ref>