Thaketa Township ( my, သာကေတ မြို့နယ်, ) is located in the eastern part 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 ...

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 township comprises 19 wards, and shares borders with

Thingangyun Township Thingangyun Township (, ) is located in the eastern part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 38 wards, and shares borders with South Okkalapa township in the north, North Dagon township in the east, Yankin township and Tamwe township in th ...

in the north and west, the

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in the east, and

Dawbon Township Dawbon Township ( my, ဒေါပုံ မြို့နယ် ) is located in the southeastern part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 14 wards, and shares borders with Thingangyun township in the north, Mingala Taungnyunt township in ...

in the south. The

Pazundaung Creek Pazundaung Creek ( my, ပုဇွန်တောင်ချောင်း, known upstream as Ngamoeyeik Creek) is a stream that empties into Yangon River. The center of Rangoon (now Yangon) was established at the confluence of Yangon River to t ...

flows through the township. Founded in 1959, Thaketa is made up largely of middle-class and working-class neighborhoods. 5 South Korean companies have teamed up to build a 500-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Thaketa Township to supply electricity to

Thilawa Special Economic Zone Thilawa Special Economic Zone ( my, သီလဝါအထူးစီးပွားရေးဇုန်; abbreviated Thilawa SEZ) is a special economic zone being developed in Kyauktan and Thanlyin Townships, south of Yangon city. The first ph ...

History

In 1958, Thaketa township is founded by Yangon Mayor Colonel Htun Sein during General

Ne Win Ne Win ( my, နေဝင်း ; 10 July 1910, or 14 or 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002) was a Burmese politician and military commander who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma ...

's Care taker government of Myanmar(Burma) in order to relocate illegal slams in Yangon. It is built on the peninsula of

and Nga Moe Yeik creek in eastern part of Yangon.

Population

As of 2014, Thaketa Township has 220,556 residents with 48.6% male residents and 51.4% female residents which means majority of the population is female residents.

Education

The township has nine monastic schools, 46 primary schools, eight middle schools and five high schools.

References

{{Administrative divisions of Burma (Myanmar) Townships of Yangon