Kyunsu or Kanmaw Township is a
township
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
of
Myeik District Myeik District ( my, မြိတ်ခရိုင်) is a district in the Tanintharyi Region of Burma (Myanmar). The district covers an area of 18,121 km2, and had a population of 693,087 at the 2014 Census.
Administrative divisions Townships
T ...
in the
Taninthayi Division
Tanintharyi Region ( my, တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; Mon: or ; ms, Tanah Sari; formerly Tenasserim Division and subsequently Tanintharyi Division, th, ตะนาวศรี, RTGS: ''Tanao Si'', ; ...
of
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 principal town is
Kyunsu (older name Kanmaw
["Burma 1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, Bokpyin NC 47-2"](_blank)
U.S. Army Map Service, July 1960). The township constitutes much of the
Mergui Archipelago
The Mergui Archipelago (also Myeik Archipelago or ''Myeik Kyunzu''; my, မြိတ်ကျွန်းစု) is located in far southern Myanmar (Burma) and is part of the Tanintharyi Region. It consists of more than 800 islands, varying in ...
to the west, northwest and southwest of the city of
Mergui
Myeik (, or ; mnw, ဗိက်, ; th, มะริด, , ; formerly Mergui, ) is a rural city in Tanintharyi Region in Myanmar (Burma), located in the extreme south of the country on the coast off an island on the Andaman Sea. , the estimat ...
(Myeik). The main town is located on the north-east coast of
Kanmaw Island to the southwest of Mergui city.
History
Kyunsu Township was created out of Mergui Township in 1990,
[''Südostasien Aktuell'' (Journal of current southeast Asian affairs) volume 1]
page 199
in German the remainder of which became
Myeik Township
Myeik Township ( my, မြိတ်မြို့နယ်) is a township of Myeik District in the Taninthayi Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Myeik.
Demographics 2014
The 2014 Myanmar Census reported that Myeik Township had a popu ...
.
References
External links
Map of Kyunsu Township
Townships of Taninthayi Region
{{Taninthayi Division