Okpho (; also spelt Okpo) is a small town and seat of

Okpho Township Okpho Township or Okpo 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

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 lies south of

Gyobingauk Gyobingauk is a small town and seat of Gyobingauk Township, Tharrawaddy District, in the Bago Region of southern-central Burma. It lies approximately 10 kilometres north of Okpho Okpho (; also spelt Okpo) is a small town and seat of Okpho Towns ...

and north of Minhla. It contains a hospital, a pagoda, and an open ground in the town centre. It is located 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 Okpho Railway Station is operated by

Myanmar Railways Rail transport in Myanmar consists of a railway network with 960 stations. The network, generally spanning north to south with branch lines to the east and west, is the second largest in Southeast Asia, and includes the Yangon Circular Railway ...

and the town also contains a police station. Father J.B Bringaud was reported to have been in the area west of Okpho in November 1862. The population of Okpho's urban area is 11,525 as of 2014, while

Okpho Township Okpho Township or Okpo Township is a township in Tharrawaddy District in the Bago Region of Burma.

's population is 126,662.

Notable people

Chit Maung Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung (; 1913–1945) was a journalist and patriotic writer of Burma / Myanmar. He worked for ''Bogyoke'' Aung San, the father of Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi. He was Chief Editor of ''New Light of Burma' Later his own ' ...

(1913–1945) - journalist, patriotic writer who worked for ''Bogyoke''

Aung San Aung San (, ; 13 February 191519 July 1947) was a Burmese politician, independence activist and revolutionary. He was instrumental in Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule, but he was assassinated just six months before his go ...

, the father of

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from ...

. He was Chief Editor of ''

New Light of Burma ''The New Light of Myanmar'' (, ; formerly ''The New Light of Burma'') is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in Yangon, Myanmar. ''The New Light of Myanmar'' is often viewed as propaganda on part of th ...

''. Later his own ''Journalgyaw Newspaper'' was well known in Burma. *

U Saw U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw ( my-Mymr, ဦးစော or my-Mymr, ဂဠုန်ဦးစော, lit. Garuda U Saw, ; 16 March 1900 – 8 May 1948), was a leading Burmese politician who served as Prime Minister of British Burma dur ...

- Politician and assassin of

and several Burmese Martyrs

References

External links

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