Coordinates: 22°07′N 95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°E / 22.117; 95.133

Monywa District

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Monywa District
မုံရွာ
District
Monywa District is located in Myanmar
Monywa District
Monywa District
Location in Burma
Coordinates: 22°07′N 95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°E / 22.117; 95.133
Country Burma
RegionSagaing Region
No. of Townships4
CapitalMonywa
Time zoneUTC+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 previously also consisted of the following townships, which became Yinmabin District:

Also, it had a township that has recently been annexed to Shwebo District:

Borders

Monywa District is bordered[4] by:

Notable residents

Notes

  1. ^ Burma Gazetteer : Lower Chindwin district, Upper Burma. Office of the Superintendent, Government Printing, Burma. 1912. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  2. ^ "Lower Chindwin District". geoview.info. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  3. ^ "Burma: Second-Order Administrative Divisions (Districts)" The Permanent Committee of Geographic Names (PCGN), United Kingdom, from Internet Archive
  4. ^ "Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map" Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
  5. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chindwin, Upper and Lower" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232.


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