Monywa District
Monywa District
မံုရြာ | |
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District | |
Monywa District Location in Burma | |
Coordinates: 22°07′N 95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°ECoordinates: 22°07′N 95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°E | |
Country | Burma |
Region | Sagaing Region |
No. of Townships | 4 |
Capital | Monywa |
Time zone | UTC+6.30 (MST) |
Monywa District (Burmese: မုံရွာခရိုင်) (formerly Lower Chindwin District)[1] [2] is an administrative district in southern Sagaing Division, Burma (Myanmar).[3] Its administrative center is the city of Monywa.
Administrative divisions[]
Monywa District consists of the following townships:
Monywa District also consisted of the following townships, which formed to become Yinmabin District:
Also, it had a township that has recently annexed into Shwebo District:
Borders[]
Monywa District is bordered[4] by:
- Mawlaik District to the north,[5]
- Yinmabin District to the west,
- Sagaing District to the south[5]
Notes[]
- ^ Burma Gazetteer : Lower Chindwin district, Upper Burma. Office of the Superintendent, Government Printing, Burma. 1912. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Lower Chindwin District". geoview.info. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ^ "Burma: Second-Order Administrative Divisions (Districts)" The Permanent Committee of Geographic Names (PCGN), United Kingdom, from Internet Archive
- ^ "Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map" Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232. .
Categories:
- Districts of Myanmar
- Sagaing Region
- Sagaing Region geography stubs