East Dagon Township (also East Dagon Myothit; my, ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်အရှေ့ပိုင်း မြို့နယ် ) is located in the easternmost part of

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

. The township comprises 54 wards and three village tracts. It shares borders with

Hlegu Township Hlegu Township ( my, လှည်းကူး မြို့နယ်, ) is a မြို့နယ် of Yangon Burma, Burma (Myanmar). It is northeast of the city Yangon and is largely rural. The township's Paunglin Dam and Ngamoeyeik Rese ...

in the north,

North Dagon Township North Dagon Township (also North Dagon Myothit; my, ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်မြောက်ပိုင်း မြို့နယ် ) is located in the eastern part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 25 wards, and shares ...

in the west, and

South Dagon Township South Dagon Township (also South Dagon Myothit; my, ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်တောင်ပိုင်း မြို့နယ် ) is located in the southeastern part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 26 wards and three ...

in the south and west. One of new satellite towns founded in 1989 by the

military government A military government is generally any form of government that is administered by military forces, whether or not this government is legal under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue, and whether this government is formed by natives or by an occup ...

that came to power in 1988, East Dagon is still largely undeveloped and lacks basic municipal services. The township has 19 primary schools, four middle schools and two high schools. The Ngamoyeik creek cuts through East Dagon Township. The

Togyaunggalay Railway Station Togyaunggalay railway station ( my, တိုးကြောင်ကလေးဘူတာ) is a railway station on the Yangon Circular Railway in Yangon, Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA ...

is a stop on the

Yangon Circular Railway Yangon Circular Railway ( my, ရန်ကုန် မြို့ပတ် ရထား ) is the local commuter rail network that serves the Yangon metropolitan area. Operated by Myanmar Railways, the 39-station loop system connects satellite t ...

, and

Myanmar Railways Rail transport in Myanmar consists of a railway network with 960 stations. The network, generally spanning north to south with branch lines to the east and west, is the second largest in Southeast Asia, and includes the Yangon Circular Railway ...

's Yangon-Bago line. Several bus lines connect East Dagon to downtown and other parts of the city.

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Yangon City Rail to Suburban Townships of Yangon