Taungdwingyi Township ( my, တောင်တွင်းကြီး မြို့နယ်) is a

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Magway District Magway District is a district of the Magway Region (formerly Magway Division) in central Myanmar. Magway may be divided into two portions: the low, flat country in the Taungdwingyi subdivision, and the undulating high ground extending over the res ...

in the

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, ...

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 ...

. The principal town is

Taungdwingyi Taungdwingyi ( my, တောင်တွင်းကြီး ) is a town located in Magway Region, Myanmar. Town scape The town is divided into ten main quarters. They are Ohndaw Quarter 1, Ohndaw Quarter 2, Taungbyin Quarter 1, Taungbyin Qua ...

. People have inhabited this area for thousands of years, and one of the earliest civilizations of Myanmar,

Beikthano Beikthano ( my, ဗိဿနိုး, , also known as Panhtwa city), is situated in the irrigated Magway Region, near present-day Taungdwingyi. In the era of the Pyu city-states it was a city of considerable significance, possibly a local capital ...

, the ancient

Pyu Pyu, also spelled Phyu or Phyuu, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. is a town in Taungoo District, Bago Region in Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Phyu Township Pyu Township is a township in Taungoo District in the ...

city, is located near the town. The territorial area is planes, and rice, beans, grains, sugarcane, and other plants were grown there.

Localities

* Aoung Bok

Border

Taungdwingyi Township is bordered by the following townships: *

Myothit Township Myothit Township ( my, မြို့သစ် မြို့နယ်) is a township of Magway District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Myothit Myothit ( my, မြို့သစ်) is a town of Myothit Township i ...

to the North *

Sinbaungwe Township Sinbaungwe Township or Tantabin Township ( my, ဆင်ပေါင်ဝဲမြို့နယ်) is a township of Thayet District in the Magway Region of Burma (Myanmar). It is located to the west of the Pegu Range in the foothills and on t ...

to the South *

Lewe Township Lewe Township ( my, လယ်ဝေးမြို့နယ်) is one of eight townships of Naypyidaw Union Territory, Burma. Demographics 2014 The 2014 Myanmar Census reported that Lewe Township had a population of 284,393. The population dens ...

Mandalay Region Mandalay Region ( my, မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Mandalay Division) is an administrative divisions of Myanmar, administrative division of Myanmar. It is located in the center of the country, bordering ...

to the East *

Tatkon Township Tatkon Township ( my, တပ်ကုန်းမြို့နယ်) is one of eight townships of Naypyidaw Union Territory, Burma. History The area comprising Lewe Township was previously called Nga-nwe-kon (ငနွဲ့ကုန်း), Nw ...

to the East *

Magway Township Magway Township ( my, မကွေးမြို့နယ်) is a township of Magway District in the Magway Region of Myanmar. The principal town is Magway. Bounds Magway Township is bounded by the following townships:rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

beans A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes th ...

peas The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the flowering plant species ''Pisum sativum''. Each pod contains several peas, which can be green or yellow. Botanically, pea pods are fruit, since they contain seeds and d ...

grains A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legume ...

and

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

. Once several years ago, this area had deep

teak Teak (''Tectona grandis'') is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae. It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. ''Tectona grandis'' has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters (panicl ...

forests, and the timber industry was highly developed, but now all the teak trees have disappeared.

Population

According to the 2014 census, the population of Taungdwingyi township was 259,860. The male to female ratio was 90:100. 17.75% of population live in the urban area.

Transportation

Taungdwingyi is connected to the large divisional city Magway (68 km/42 miles) to the west,

Pyay Pyay (, ; mnw, ပြန် , ; also known as Prome and Pyè) is principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar. Pyay is located on the bank of the Irrawaddy River, north-west of Yangon. It is an important trade center for the Aye ...

(162 km/101 miles) to the south and

Naypyidaw Naypyidaw, officially spelled Nay Pyi Taw (; ), is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory. It is unusual among Myanmar's cities, as it is an entirely planned city outs ...

(68 km/42 miles) to the east, by means of territorial road and railways. By the territorial road, it is 227 km to

Mandalay Mandalay ( or ; ) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631km (392 miles) (Road Distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census). Mandalay was fo ...

and 365 km to

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 closest major airport is Magwe Airport (MWQ). The local villages and town are mostly connected by

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s and

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Weather

April is warmest with an average temperature of 39°C at noon. January is coldest with an average temperature of 14°C at night. Temperatures drop sharply at night. January is on average the month with most sunshine. The wet season has a rainfall peak around August. The dry season is around the month of March.

Nature

The area has a humid (>0.65 p/pet) climate. The land area is totally cultivated and not much natural vegetation is left. The landscape is mostly covered with mosaic croplands/vegetation. The climate is classified as a tropical monsoon (short dry season, monsoon rains other months), with a subtropical dry forest biozone. The soil in the area is high in nitosols, andosols (nt), soil with deep, clay-enriched lower horizon with shiny ped surfaces. Townships of Magway Region {{Magway-geo-stub