The Daai people live in the Mindat, Paletwa, Matupi and Kanpetlet townships of Southern Chin State in Burma.

The Eastern Shan Plateau is a highland region that merges with the Dawna and Tenasserim Yoma mountain ranges.

The central belt zone covers the valleys of the Irrawaddy, Chindwin and Sittang rivers as well as a mountainous region to the north and a low lying delta to the south.

The Daailand is situated in the southern part of the Chinland (Chin state) located on the western mountain zone of Myanmar.

Many natural water courses flow through the mountain ranges running from north to south, forming valleys and gorges. "

At present the term Daai is a collective name, of the inhabitants of Daailand in the southern Chin state of Myanmar.

According to Thang Hleih, the word Dai represents the people who live peacefully, gently lovingly, harmoniously, generously and kindly.

The word, therefore, stands for the people who are living inside the most interior part of southern Chin State.

The entire area is hilly made up of a series of ranges running from north to south which fortunately give sufficient food and rice to the inhabitants and their neighbors.

Daailand is divided into four parts within the southern Chin state: Kanpetlet, Mindat, Matupi and Paletwa townships.

Today, Daai, and people are receiving further education in various Christian colleges such as in the capital cities of Yangon, Falam, Hakha, Mandalay, Kalay, Maymyo, Kyaukhtu, Pakokku and also America, India, and some others countries.

God was defined in many terms in Daai concept before Christianity; such as; Mhnamnu, Khyümhnam, Nukhyünu and Pamhnampa.

Mhnamnu couldn't be defined with human language, sometimes; they used to say that "Jah hmuki ni lu khana ka".

However, these days it serves as the economic mainstay for the Daai, providing money to buy clothes, attend school, and trade with their neighbours.

The Daai people cultivate rice, corn, millet, beans, peas, cucumber, pumpkin, gourd, egg plant, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, ginger, sesame and celery in their gardens or farms.

Daai farmers cultivate at the beginning of monsoon season (the mid-April to June) and harvest crops in October and November.

Generally, Daailand is mostly used for slash-and-burn or shifting cultivation, with the least-developed regions inhabited by the indigenous hill tribes of Myanmar.

Dai people earn their livelihood by shifting between cultivation (Taung Ya) and subsistence farming.

Farming and gardening are only for their subsistence and personal consumption, transportation systems and markets are not developed in Daailand.

Some Daai people migrate to Malaysia because their lives and political, cultural, and religious freedoms are threatened in Myanmar.

There, the parents struggle for their daily bread as undocumented migrants, vulnerable to arrest for immigration offences, and are often subject to detention, prosecution, whipping and deportation for several months.

Daai refugees are scattered throughout Malaysia in places such as Johor Bahru, Ipoh, the Cameron Highlands, Kalang, Kajang, Rawang, and others.