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Aself-administered area (Burmese:ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ဒေသ,romanized: kopaingokchoakkwingdetha) is anadministrative subdivision inMyanmar (Burma). There are fiveself-administered zones and oneself-administered division.
The self-administered division (SAD) exists at an administrative level half-a-step below that of states, regions and the union territory, and the self-administrative zones (SAZ) exists at thedistrict level.[1] Each self-administered area is administered by a "leading body" whose members are those members of their respectivestate and regional hluttlaw elected within the division and areas. The chief minister of a state or region formally appoints the chair upon selection by the leading body of the division or zones.[2] The self-administered areas are formed on territory underde facto control of the country'sethnic armed organisations.[3]
| Flag | Name | Burmese | Capital | Region | Population | Area(km2) | Type |
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 | Danu Self-Administered Zone | ဓနုကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ | Pindaya | Shan State | 161,835[4] | Self-Administered Zone | |
 | Kokang Self-Administered Zone | ကိုးကန့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ | Laukkai | Shan State | 123,733[4] | Self-Administered Zone | |
 | Naga Self-Administered Zone | နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ | Lahe | Sagaing Region | 116,828[5] | 7,023.5[6] | Self-Administered Zone |
 | Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone | ပလောင်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ | Namhsan | Shan State | 110,805[4] | Self-Administered Zone | |
 | Pa'O Self-Administered Zone | ပအိုဝ့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ | Hopong | Shan State | 380,427[4] | Self-Administered Zone | |
 | Wa Self-Administered Division | ဝကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရတိုင်း | Hopang | Shan State | 558,000[4] | Self-Administered Division |