Mindat District ( my, မင်းတပ်ခရိုင်, links=Mindat, Mindat=Mindat) is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

in the

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 ...

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 ...

. It consists of two townships and 840 villages. Mindat district in Chin state

History

In 1948, after the formation of the constitution for the Union of Burma, Pakokku province was created with two districts - Pakokku District and Mindat District. They comprised a total of 11 townships -

Pakokku Pakokku ( my, ပခုက္ကူမြို့, ) is the largest city in the Magway Region of Myanmar. It is situated about 30 km north-east of Bagan on the Irrawaddy River. It is the administration seat of Pakokku Township , Pakokku Distric ...

(capital city),

Mindat Mindat may refer to: Places in Burma/Myanmar *Mindat, Chin State, in Burma *Mindat Township, in Burma *Mindat District in Chin State, Burma Other uses *Mindat Min Kanaung Mintha ( my, ကနောင်မင်းသား; 31 January 1820 � ...

Yesagyo Yesagyo ( my, ရေစကြိုမြို့) is a town in the Magway Division in Myanmar. It is situated on the Chindwin River, near the site where it flows into Irrawaddy River. It is the principal town and administrative seat of Yesagyo ...

Pauk Pauk may refer to: People * Alex Pauk (born 1945), Canadian conductor and composer * Goran Pauk (born 1962), Croatian politician * György Pauk (born 1936), Hungarian violinist * Ke Pauk (1934–2002), Cambodian communist * Paul Pauk (1912– ...

Seikphyu Seikphyu ( my, ဆိပ်ဖြူ) is the principal town and administrative seat for Seikphyu Township in Pakokku District in the Magway Division of Myanmar, on the right (western) bank of the Irrawaddy immediately below its confluence with th ...

Myaing Myaing ( ) is a town and seat of Myaing Township in the Magway Region of central Myanmar. Transport It was connected to the Rail transport in Myanmar, Myanmar Railway network in 1998. See also * Transport in Myanmar References

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Gangaw Gangaw ( my, ဂန့်ဂေါမြို့, ) is a town of Gangaw Township in Gangaw District in the Magway Division in Myanmar. Gangaw is also known as the City of Yaw, a certain region in Myanmar including Gangaw (), Tilin (), Saw () an ...

Htilin Htilin ( my, ထီးလင်းမြို့, ; also spelt as Htilim
GeoNames or Htilin) is a town in Saw A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut through material, very often wood, though sometimes metal or stone. The cut is made by placing the toothed edge against the material and mo ...

Kanpetlet Kanpetlet (, ) is a town in the Chin State of West Myanmar and the home of the Kanpetlet Township administration body. It is known for Mt. Victoria, the highest peak in the Chin Hills and one of the highest in Western Myanmar, and Natmataung ...

, and Matupi. On March 2nd, 1962 the military led by General

Ne Win Ne Win ( my, နေဝင်း ; 10 July 1910, or 14 or 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002) was a Burmese politician and military commander who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma ...

took control of Burma through a

coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...

, which put the government under the direct control of the military. A new constitution of the

Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma , conventional_long_name = Union of Burma Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma , common_name = Burma , status = , status_text = , p1 = Post-independence Burma, 1948–1962Uni ...

was established on May 4th, 1974. Pakokku province was then broken up in a fashion, whereby Pakokku District was added to the Magway Division, and Mindat District was added to Chin State.

Townships

Mindat District contains the

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 ...

s of

and

References

* Districts of Myanmar Chin State {{burma-geo-stub