Wuntho ( shn, ဝဵင်းသိူဝ်) is a town in

Katha District Katha District is the northeasternmost district in Sagaing Region of Myanmar.

Sagaing Division Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...

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 ...

. It is the administrative seat of Wuntho Township.

History

While not the capital, it gave its name to the native state of Wuntho which was formally annexed to Burma by the

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

in 1892. Rail service from

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 ...

was extended to Wuntho in 1893. On 30 December 1994, on the outskirts of Wuntho on the Bonkyaung bridge a Mandalay-

Myitkyina Myitkyina (, ; (Eng; ''mitchinar'') Jinghpaw: ''Myitkyina'', ) is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located from Yangon, and from Mandalay. In Burmese it means "near the big river", and Myitkyina is on the west bank of t ...

passenger train derailed when its brakes failed and one passenger car plummeted into a ravine. In all, 102 people were killed and 53 were seriously injured.Staff (5 January 1995) "Rail derailment kills 102, injures 53" ''BBC Summary of World Broadcasts'' from Radio Myanmar, Rangoon, in Burmese, 1330 GMT 31 December 1994

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External links

"Photograph of a street in Wuntho, 1891"
Royal Commonwealth Society Library
"Wuntho Map — Satellite Images of Wuntho"
''Maplandia'' Township capitals of Myanmar Populated places in Sagaing Region {{KathaMM-geo-stub