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Win Nyunt

Burmese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ99395408
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Win Nyunt (Burmese:ဝင်းညွန့်, born 1 October 1963) is a Burmese politician who currently serves as a Minister of ministry of Road Transports and electricity in Kachin State Government and an MP of Kachin State Hluttaw for Waingmaw township from 2015 election. He is a member of the National League for Democracy.

Early life and education

Win Nyunt was born on 1 October 1963 in Bhamo, Kachin State, Myanmar. He Graduated high school from Basic Education High School No. 1 Bhamo. He graduated with a B.E. electronic from Yangon Technological University.

Political career

He is a member of the National League for Democracy. In the 2015 Myanmar general election, he was elected as a Kachin State Hluttaw MP, winning a majority of 6007 votes and elected representative from Waingmaw Township parliamentary constituency. By the order of President of Myanmar (Win Myint) and he become a Minister of Kachin State Government.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Win Nyunt” as burmese politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-10-01. The account is most persuasive where Nyunt, Burmese and politician can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as burmese politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q99395408. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from Win Nyunt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.