Pa'O woman buying vegetable

7 % of Burmese citizen are from the Karen ethnic group, most of them living in Shan State and on the Inle Lake. The Pa'O is a subgroup of the Karen and the second largest ethnic group in Shan State. They are classified as part of the "Shan National Race" by the government, although they are believed to be of Tibeto-Burman stock, and are ethnolinguistically related to the Karen.