Gangaw ( my, ဂန့်ဂေါမြို့, ) is a town of

Gangaw Township Gangaw Township is a township of Gangaw District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Gangaw. The capital city of Gangaw District is Pakokku Pakokku ( my, ပခုက္ကူမြို့, ) is the largest city in the ...

in Gangaw District in the

Magway Division Magway Region ( my, မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative division in central Myanmar. It is the second largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, with an area of . Pa Del Dam (ပဒ� ...

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 ...

. Gangaw is also known as the City of Yaw, a certain region in Myanmar including Gangaw (), Tilin (), Saw () and villages around them. Gangaw District and

Gangaw township Gangaw Township is a township of Gangaw District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Gangaw. The capital city of Gangaw District is Pakokku Pakokku ( my, ပခုက္ကူမြို့, ) is the largest city in the ...

was a part of Pakokku District until 2003.In 2003,Gangaw District was established. Myit Thar river () flows from South to North dividing the town into Gangaw and Western Gangaw () village. Kale-Gangaw Road was a main roadway linking Gangaw and Kalaymyo. It was long, the 59 miles and six furlongs was tarred road and three miles section, three furlongs was gravel road section and 19 miles and seven furlongs was earthen section. Mandalay-Gangaw Road is a main Road linking the center of Myanmar.

Climate

Gangaw has a

tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of p ...

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''Aw'') with three seasons. The “cool” season from December to February is dry and clear with cool mornings and very warm to hot afternoons, gradually heating up to the sweltering and unpleasant “hot” season from March to mid-May, and to the monsoonal

wet season The wet season (sometimes called the Rainy season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. It is the time of year where the majority of a country's or region's annual precipitation occurs. Generally, the sea ...

from mid-May to October. Rainfall in Gangaw is lessened substantially by rain shadow effects from the Arakan Mountains to the west, although the city is less dry than Pakokku or Mandalay. The rainfall collected on 19 October 2011 was a new record for Gangaw for October over the past 47 years. The previous record was on 3 October 1980.http://www.mrtv3.net.mm/newpaper/2110newsm.pdf Page 19 Col 2

References

Populated places in Magway Region Township capitals of Myanmar {{Magway-geo-stub