The Zo people or Zomi (meaning highlanders), also known as the Mizo, the Kuki, the Chin and a number of other names, are a large group of Tibeto-Burman related peoples. This population spreads throughout the northeastern states of India, northwestern Myanmar and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. In northeastern India, they are present in Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Assam. Their distribution is the result of British colonial territory policy, focusing on drawing borders on political grounds rather than ethnic ones.