Hsipaw, also known as Thibaw, was a Shan state in what is today Myanmar. Its capital was Hsipaw town. Hsipaw State was perhaps one of the most well known and powerful Shan States.
Hsipaw Palace was built in 1924.
Hsipaw countryside, autumn 2006
The Shan States (1885–1948) were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called muang whose rulers bore the title saopha in British Burma. They were analogous to the princely states of British India.
Two Shan saophas with their wives seated between them at the Durbar held in New Delhi in honour of Edward VII.