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Monywa District
မုံရွာခရိုင် | |
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| Coordinates: 22°07′N 95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°E | |
| Country |  Myanmar |
| Region |  Sagaing Region |
| No. of Townships | 4 |
| Capital | Monywa |
| Time zone | UTC+6.30 (MMT) |
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
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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 was annexed to Shwebo District- Tabayin Township.
Borders
[edit]Monywa District is bordered[4] by:
- Mawlaik District to the north,[5]
- Yinmabin District to the west,
- Sagaing District to the south[5]
Notable residents
[edit]- Aung Khin, Burmese painter
Notes
[edit]- ↑ 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)
- 1 2 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232.
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