Seikphyu Township is a

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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 ...

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, ...

Burma (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 ...

. The principal town and administrative seat is

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 ...

. The township has its southeastern border along the

Irrawaddy Irrawaddy may refer to: *Irrawaddy River, the main river of Burma *Irrawaddy Delta, a rice growing region of the country *Ayeyarwady Region, an administrative division of Burma *''The Irrawaddy'', a Burmese news publication based in Chiang Mai, Tha ...

where its principal town, Seikphyu, is a port. The township lies between 20° 51' and 21° 15' north latitude and 94° 09' and 94° 48' east longitude. The

Yaw River Yaw River or Ywa River is a river of Burma, a tributary of the Irrawaddy. It flows into the Irrawaddy on the right (west) just above the town of Seikpyu,

forms the township's eastern boundary. It is one of the areas destroyed by

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on 23 October 2010.

Borders

Seikphyu Township is bordered"Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map"
Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) by: *

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.''Im ...

, to the north, *

Pakokku Township Pakokku Township ( my, ပခုက္ကူ မြို့နယ်) is a township of Pakokku District in Magway Division of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Pakokku. The township has its eastern and southeastern bo ...

, to the northeast and east, *

Chauk Township Chauk Township ( my, ချောက် မြို့နယ်) is a township of Magway District in the Magway Division of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Chauk. Borders Chauk Township is bounded by the following t ...

, to the southeast, *

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 ...

, to the south, and *

Saw Township Saw Township ( my, ဆောမြို့နယ်, ) is a township of Pakokku District in the Magway Region of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Saw A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain ...

, to the west.

Economy

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is the major

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of the township.

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from Seikphyu Township is famous in

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion ...

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is grown along the sandbank of

Yaw River Yaw River or Ywa River is a river of Burma, a tributary of the Irrawaddy. It flows into the Irrawaddy on the right (west) just above the town of Seikpyu,

from December to April.

Secret projects

The

State Peace and Development Council The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ...

is constructing 2 secret nuclear suspected military projects on the northern side of Seikphyu Township along with other secret projects in Mindon, Padan,

Pwintbyu Pwintbyu ( my, ပွင့်ဖြူမြို့) is the principal town of Pwintbyu Township in Minbu District in Magway Region of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions r ...

Sidoktaya Sidoktaya, also Sitoktaya or Setoketaya ( my, စေတုတ္တရာမြို့) is a town and seat of Sidoktaya Township in Minbu District of Magway Division, situated in middle west region of Burma. It is bordered with Salin t ...

, Salin, Pakkoku, Laung Shay (in Saw Township) and

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Townships.The Irrawaddy, Junta Constructing Tunnel in Magway
/ref> Actually, the sites in Seikphyu Township are 2 factories for the production of military weapons and are not the nuclear projects.

Notes

External links

Admin map, 2011, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)

"Seikpyu Google Satellite Map"
map of administrative area with listing of principal settlements, from Maplandia World Gazetteer
"Seik Phyu Township - Magway Division"
map, 8 June 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) {{Magway Division Townships of Magway Region