Kawlin (ကောလင်းမြို့) is a town in the

Sagaing Division Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...

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 ...

. (page 43 in part B of volume 1 in the pdf file) Since December 2018 it has been the administration headquarters for

Kawlin District Kawlin District ( my, ကောလင်းခရိုင်) is a district in Sagaing Region, Myanmar. On 5 December 2018, three townships in Katha District were separated and formed as Kawlin District. The principal town is Kawlin. Townships ...

as well as

Kawlin Township Kawlin Township ( shn, ၸႄႈဝဵင်းၵေႃလၢင်း) is a township in Kawlin District (formerly part of Katha District) in the Sagaing Division of Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: ...

. As of 2019, the town had a population of 25,254, up from 21,431 in 2014.

History

Under the

Burmese monarchy The history of Myanmar (also known as Burma; my, မြန်မာ့သမိုင်း) covers the period from the time of first-known human settlements 13,000 years ago to the present day. The earliest inhabitants of recorded history wer ...

governors of Kawlin were by royal appointment. The site of the old town where they ruled is about a mile west of Kawlin, and is reduced to a village. The new town of Kawlin was formed by consolidating the former villages of Taungin (တောင်အင်း) and Northin (မြောက်အင်းခေါ်).

References

Township capitals of Myanmar Populated places in Sagaing Region {{KathaMM-geo-stub

History

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