Kyaukpadaung Township is a

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, C ...

of Nyaung-U District (until 2014, part of

Myingyan District Myingyan District is a district of the Mandalay Division in central Burma. Townships The district contains the following townships: * Myingyan Township *Taungtha Township * Natogyi Township * Nganzun Township At one point, Myingyan District al ...

) in

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

of Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative seat is the town of

Kyaukpadaung Kyaukpadaung ( my, ကျောက်ပန်းတောင်းမြို့ ) is a town in Mandalay Region in Central Myanmar. It lies just south-west of Mount Popa. It is the administrative seat for Kyaukpadaung Township. History The nam ...

. Important towns include Popaywa and Seiktein (Seikhtain). Kyaukpadaung tsp in Nyaung U district

Geography

Kyaukpadaung Township is the southwesternmost township in Myingyan District and borders the following: *

Taungtha Township Taungtha Township is a township of Myingyan District in the Mandalay Region of Burma (Myanmar). Its principal town and administrative seat is Taungtha. The township covers an area of and as of 2014 it had a population of 216,399 people. History ...

to the north * Mahlaing Township to the northeast *

Meiktila Township Meiktila Township ( my, မိတ္ထီလာ မြို့နယ်) is a township of Meiktila District in the Mandalay Division of Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions req ...

to the east *

Natmauk Township Natmauk Township ( my, နတ်မောတ် မြို့နယ်) is a township of Magway District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Natmauk. It is the place where General Aung San who is national hero of Myanmar ...

of Magwe Region to the south *

Yenangyaung Township Yenangyaung Township ( my, ရေနံချောင်းမြို့နယ်) is a township of Magway District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. Yenangyaung is bordered on the south by Magway, on the east by Natmauk, on the north by Chau ...

of Magwe Region to the southwest *

Chauk Township Chauk Township ( my, ချောက် မြို့နယ်) is a township of Magway District in the Magway Division of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Chauk. Borders Chauk Township is bounded by the following ...

of Magwe Region to the west, and * Nyaung-U Township to the northwest The township includes

Mount Popa Mount Popa (, ) is a dormant volcano 1518 metres (4981 feet) above sea level, and located in central Myanmar in the region of Mandalay about southeast of Bagan (Pagan) in the Pegu Range. It can be seen from the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) Riv ...

, the Popa Taungkalat monastery, the Salay ruins from the 12th and 13th centuries and the Kyetmauk Taung Reservoir.

External links

"Kyaukpadaung Township, Mandalay Division"
map ID:MIMU154_Kyaukpadaung_Township_100111, created: 11 January 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
"Kyaukpadaung Google Satellite Map"
Maplandia World Gazetteer Townships of Mandalay Region {{Mandalay-geo-stub