Mawlamyine Township ( my, မော်လမြိုင်မြို့နယ်) 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, Ca ...

Mawlamyine District Mawlamyine District ( my, မော်လမြိုင်ခရိုင်) is a district of the Mon State in Myanmar. The capital is Mawlamyine town. The district covers an area of 6,084 km2, and had a population of 1,232,221 at the 2014 ...

in the

Mon State Mon State ( my, မွန်ပြည်နယ်, ; mnw, တွဵုရးဍုင်မန်, italics=no) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It lies between Kayin State to the east, the Andaman Sea to the west, Bago Region to the ...

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 principal town is

Mawlamyine Mawlamyine (also spelled Mawlamyaing; , ; th, เมาะลำเลิง ; mnw, မတ်မလီု, ), formerly Moulmein, is the fourth-largest city in Myanmar (Burma), ''World Gazetteer'' south east of Yangon and south of Thaton, at th ...

Demographics

2014

The

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reported that Mawlamyine Township had a population of 289,388. The

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was 1,322.6 people per km². The census reported that the median age was 29.2 years, and 93 males per 100 females. There were 57,457 households; the mean household size was 4.7. The

Pa-Auk Forest Monastery The Pa-Auk Forest Monastery, known in Burmese as the Pa-Auk Tawya (), is a Theravāda monastery in the village of Pa-Auk in Mawlamyine, Mon State. Situated in a tropical forest along the Dawna Range, it is the main monastery complex and meditat ...

is located in the

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of Pa-Auk ().

References

Townships of Mon State {{Mon-geo-stub