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Taunggyi District ( my, တောင်ကြီးခရိုင်) is a
district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
of
Shan State Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the Endonym and exonym, endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. ...
in Burma. The principal town and administrative center is
Taunggyi Taunggyi ( ; Shan: ; Pa'O: ) is the capital and largest city of Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) and lies on the Thazi-Kyaingtong road at an elevation of , just north of Shwenyaung and Inle Lake within the Myelat region. Taunggyi is the fifth lar ...
. This district has 12 towns and 3001 villages. Popular tourist sites,
Inle Lake Inle Lake (, ), a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in Myanmar (Burma). It is the second largest lake in Myanmar with an estimated surface area of , and one of the highest at an elevation of ...
and
Inlay Lake Wetland Sanctuary , iucn_category = V , photo = Inlay Lake Biosphere Reserve.JPG , photo_caption = Entrance to the sanctuary , map = Myanmar , relief = 1 , map_alt = , map_caption = Location in Myanmar , map_width = , location = Nyaungsh ...
lies in this district.


Administrative divisions


The district contains 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, Ca ...
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Kalaw Township Kalaw Township ( my, ကလောမြို့နယ်) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Kalaw. This township contains Kalaw, Aungban and Heho Heho ( my, ဟဲဟိုး) is a small to ...
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Lawksawk Township Lawksawk Township ( my, Yatsawk or Yatsauk) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Lawksawk. Geography Lawksawk Township is bounded on the north by the townships of Nawnghkio, Kyaukme, and Hsip ...
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Nyaungshwe Township Nyaungshwe Township (; ) is a township of Taunggyi District in Shan State, Myanmar. It is located south of Sakangyi and south-west of Taunggyi. The principal town is Nyaungshwe. Inle Lake, a popular tourist destination and an inland freshwater la ...
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Pekon Township Pekon Township (also spelled Pekhon, Phekhon, Pekong, Pecong, Pékon) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Pekon. Part of a popular tourist place and bird watching site, Inle Lake and Inlay Lak ...
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Taunggyi Township Taunggyi Township is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Taunggyi. Borders Taunggyi Township is bordered
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Pindaya Township Pindaya Township ( my, ပင်းတယမြို့နယ်; also spelled Pingdaya or Pangtara) is a township located within Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar. It is also part of the Danu Self-Administered Zone. The principal town is Pind ...
(part of the
Danu Self-Administered Zone The Danu Self-Administered Zone ( my, ဓနု ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ ), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone consisting of two townships in ...
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Ywangan Township Ywangan Township ( my, ရွာငံမြို့နယ်) is a township located within Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicati ...
(part of the
Danu Self-Administered Zone The Danu Self-Administered Zone ( my, ဓနု ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ ), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone consisting of two townships in ...
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Hopong Township Hopong Township ( my, ဟိုပုန်းမြို့နယ်) ( blk, ဝေင်ꩻနယ်ႏဟိုပုံꩻ) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Hopong, Pa'O Self-Administered ...
(part of the
Pa'O Self-Administered Zone The Pa'O Self-Administered Zone ( my, ပအိုဝ်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ ), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone consisting of three ...
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Hsi Hseng Township Hsi Hseng Township ( my, ဆီဆိုင်မြို့နယ်, also spelt Hsihseng) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA con ...
(part of the
Pa'O Self-Administered Zone The Pa'O Self-Administered Zone ( my, ပအိုဝ်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ ), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone consisting of three ...
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Pinlaung Township Pinlaung Township ( my, ပင်လောင်းမြို့နယ်) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. It is one of three townships in the Pa-O Self-Administered Zone. Its principal town is Pinlaung. Acco ...
(part of the
Pa'O Self-Administered Zone The Pa'O Self-Administered Zone ( my, ပအိုဝ်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ ), as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, is a self-administered zone consisting of three ...
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References

Districts of Myanmar Geography of Shan State {{burma-geo-stub