Minbu District is a
district
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of the
Magway Division
Magway Region ( my, မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative divisions of Myanmar, administrative division in central Myanmar. It is the second largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, ...
in central
Myanmar
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.
"Burma: Second-Order Administrative Divisions (Districts)"
The Permanent Committee of Geographic Names (PCGN), United Kingdom, from Internet Archive
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of 25 September 2007 The city of Minbu
Minbu ( my, မင်းဘူးမြို့) is a city in Magwe Division, Myanmar. , the city has an urban population of 22,962. The area consists of low plain-land towards the Ayeyarwady River, and of undulating country inland rising highe ...
is the administrative centre. Minbu District has 5 townships.
List of city and towns by urban population
Borders
Minbu District is bounded to the south by Thayet District
Thayet District ( my, သရက်ခရိုင်; also Thayetmyo District) is a district of the Magway Division in central Burma (Myanmar).Magway District
Magway District is a district of the Magway Region (formerly Magway Division) in central Myanmar.
Magway may be divided into two portions: the low, flat country in the Taungdwingyi subdivision, and the undulating high ground extending over the re ...
, to the north by Pakokku District
Pakokku District ( my, ပခုက္ကူခရိုင်, ; also Pagukku District) is a district of the Magway Division in central Burma (Myanmar). It is situated in northern part of Magwe Region. The administrative centre is the city of ...
l, to the northwest by Mindat District
Mindat District ( my, မင်းတပ်ခရိုင်, links=Mindat, Mindat=Mindat) is a district in the Chin State of Myanmar. It consists of two townships and 840 villages.
History
In 1948, after the formation of the constitution fo ...
of Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. The Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, Bangladesh to the south-west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to the west and Manipur t ...
, and to the west by Sittwe District Sittwe District ( my, စစ်တွေခရိုင်) is a district of the Rakhine State in western Myanmar. The capital lies at Sittwe.
Administrative divisions
Sittwe District consists of the following townships:
* Pauktaw Township
* Po ...
of Rakhine State
Rakhine State (; , , ; formerly known as Arakan State) is a Administrative divisions of Myanmar, state in Myanmar (Burma). Situated on the western coast, it is bordered by Chin State to the north, Magway Region, Bago Region and Ayeyarwady R ...
and Kyaukpyu District
Kyaukpyu District ( my, ကျောက်ဖြူခရိုင်) is a district of the Rakhine State in western Myanmar. The capital lies at Kyaukphyu.
Etymology
The name Kyaukpyu (lit. "white rock") is the Burmese pronunciation. In the l ...
of Rakhine State
Rakhine State (; , , ; formerly known as Arakan State) is a Administrative divisions of Myanmar, state in Myanmar (Burma). Situated on the western coast, it is bordered by Chin State to the north, Magway Region, Bago Region and Ayeyarwady R ...
.
Townships
The district contains the following townships
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 ...
:
*Minbu Township
Minbu Township ( my, မင်းဘူး မြို့နယ်) is a township of Minbu District in the Magway Region of Myanmar. The principal town is Minbu.
The township is home to the Shwe Settaw Pagoda, which holds an annual pagoda festi ...
*Pwintbyu Township
Pwintbyu Township ( my, ပွင့်ဖြူ မြို့နယ်) is a township of Minbu District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Pwintbyu
Pwintbyu ( my, ပွင့်ဖြူမြို့) is the principa ...
*Ngape Township
Ngape Township ( my, ငဖဲ မြို့နယ်) is a township of Minbu District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Ngape
Ngape Township ( my, ငဖဲ မြို့နယ်) is a township of Minbu District in th ...
*Salin Township
Salin Township ( my, စလင်း မြို့နယ်) is a township of Minbu District in the Magway Division of Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating ...
*Sidoktaya Township
Sidoktaya Township ( my, စေတုတ္တရာ မြို့နယ်) is a Townships of Myanmar, township of Minbu District in the Magway Region of Myanmar. The principal town is Sidoktaya.
References
Townships of Magway Regi ...
Notes
External links
"Minbu (Sagu) Google Satellite Map and Gazetteer"
Maplandia
Districts of Myanmar
Magway Region
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