Gyobingauk is a small town and seat of

Gyobingauk Township Gyobingauk Township is a township in Tharrawaddy District in the Bago Region of Burma.

Tharrawaddy District Tharrawaddy or Thayarwady District ( my, သာယာဝတီခရိုင်) is a district of the Bago Division in central Burma (Myanmar). The capital lies at Tharrawaddy, Burma. Townships The district contains the following townships: #Tha ...

, in the

Bago Region Bago Region ( my, ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Pegu Division and Bago Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the southern central part of the country. It is bordered by Magway Region ...

of southern-central

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. It lies approximately 10 kilometres north of

Okpho Okpho (; also spelt Okpo) is a small town and seat of Okpho Township, Tharrawaddy District, in the Bago Region of southern-central Myanmar. It lies south of Gyobingauk and north of Minhla. It contains a hospital, a pagoda, and an open ground in t ...

along National Highway 2. It is located roughly 185 kilometres north 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 ...

. The town has a

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history with missionaries. It was reorganized in 1951 as the city headquarters. It is said that the city was named after GyoBinGauk because of buckling Gyo Tree's location at long times ago.

Notable people

* U WinTin (HanTharwady) 1930-2014 - journalist *

Tay Za Tay Za (; my, တေဇ, ; also spelled Tayza or Teza; born 18 July 1964) is a Burmese business tycoon and the Chairman of Htoo Group of Companies, Myanmar. He is a close associate of the country's former head of state, Than Shwe. He is the first ...

(1967-) - businessman

References

External links

Maplandia World Gazetteer
Populated places in Tharrawaddy District Township capitals of Myanmar Gyobingauk Township {{Bago-geo-stub