Pathein District ( my, ပုသိမ်ခရိုင်) is a
district
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of
Ayeyawady Division,
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 Wells explai ...
. It is located around and includes the urban area of the city of
Pathein. The area of the Pathein District is . Its population was 1,630,716 in 2014.
Townships
The district consists of the following
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, C ...
s:
*
Kangyidaunt Township*
Ngapudaw Township
*
Pathein Township
*
Thabaung Township[http://www.mrtv3.net.mm/newpaper/69newsn.pdf Page 10 Column 4]
Towns
The district contains 9 towns:
*
Pathein
*
Kangyidaunt
*
Thabaung
*
Kyonpyaw
*
Yekyi
*
Ngathaingchaung
*
Kyaunggon
It contains 48 wards, 519 village groups and 2963 villages.
References
Districts of Myanmar
Ayeyarwady Region
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