{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "kengtung",
 "type": "place",
 "names": {
  "name": "Kengtung",
  "my": "ကျိုင်းတုံ",
  "said": "Eastern Shan State — Tai Khuen country, between Chiang Mai and the Mekong"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna",
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "poke"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The eastern Shan town that sits in the middle of the leg-tattoo zone, and in the middle of the Tai world the zone is drawn on.",
  "story": "Kengtung's people are Tai Khuen, whose script and manuscripts belong with Lanna's rather than with Burma's. *Inference —* the leg tattoo distribution follows this cultural geography, not the modern border: Burma, the Shan States, the Tai Khuen and Tai Lue towns, and Lanna, with central Siam outside it."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "เมืองในรัฐฉานตะวันออก อยู่กลางเขตลายขา และกลางโลกไทที่เขตนั้นถูกวาดทับ"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "legs",
   "as": "The zone.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "shan-tattooing",
   "as": "The tradition.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": 21.2917,
  "lon": 99.6,
  "precision": "town",
  "source": "s:wp-kengtung"
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-kengtung",
  "s:wp-khuen-people"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-kengtung"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "legs",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The leg-tattoo zone",
   "as": "A town in the centre of it."
  }
 ]
}