Pauk is a town in
Pauk Township
Pauk Township is a township of Pakokku District in Magway Division of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Pauk.
The township lies between 21° 10' and 21° 49' north latitude and 94° 18' and 94° 44' east longitude.'' ...
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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 ...
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Magway Region
Magway Region ( my, မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative division in central Myanmar. It is the second largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, with an area of . Pa Del Dam (ပဒ ...
, in north-west
Myanmar
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. It is the administrative center for Pauk Township. Pauk is located on the western bank of the
Kyaw River
The Kyaw River ( my, ကျောမြစ်, Kyaw Chaung) is a river of upper Burma (Myanmar) in Magway Division. It is a major tributary of the Yaw River which it enters just below the town of Pauk
Pauk may refer to:
People
* Alex Pauk (b ...
just above its intersection with the
Yaw River Yaw River or Ywa River is a river of Burma
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.
The current town was founded in 1840. The local airport
ICAO designation is VYPK (
IATA code
IATA codes are abbreviations that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) publishes to facilitate air travel. They are typically 1, 2, 3, or 4 character combinations (referred to as unigrams, digrams, trigrams, or tetragrams, respect ...
: PAU).
"VYPK - Airport"
Great Circle Mapper
Notes
Further reading
* Winston, W. R. (1892) ''Four years in Upper Burma'' C.H. Kelly, London
pages 241-242
External links
"Pauk
Map — Satellite Im
ages of Pauk"
Maplandia
Township capitals of Myanmar
Populated places in Magway Region
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