The Kayan are a sub-group of Red Karen (<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karenni_people">Karenni people</a>), <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibeto-Burman_languages">Tibeto-Burman</a> <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minority">ethnic minority</a> of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar">Myanmar</a> (Burma). The Kayan consists of the following groups: Kayan Lahwi (also called Padaung, ပဒေါင် <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Burmese">[bədàʊɰ̃]</a>), Kayan Ka Khaung (Gekho), Kayan Kadao, Kayan Lahta, Kayan Ka Ngan, Kayan Kakhi and, sometimes, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bwe_people">Bwe people (Kayaw)</a>. They are distinct from, and not to be confused with, the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayan_people_(Borneo)">Kayan people of Borneo</a>.Padaung (Yan Pa Doung) is a <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_language">Shan</a> term for the Kayan Lahwi (the group in which women wear the brass <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_ring">neck rings</a>). The Kayan residents in Mae Hong Son Province in Northern Thailand refer to themselves as Kayan and object to being called Padaung. In The Hardy Padaungs (1967) <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khin_Maung_Nyunt">Khin Maung Nyunt</a>, one of the first authors to use the term "Kayan", says that the Padaung prefer to be called Kayan.<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayan_people_(Myanmar)#cite_note-1"> On the other hand, </a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Khoo_Thwe">Pascal Khoo Thwe</a> calls his people Padaung in his 2002 memoir, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey.

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