Monywa District

Monywa District
မုံရွာခရိုင်
District
Coordinates: 22°07′N 95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°E / 22.117; 95.133
Country Myanmar
Region Sagaing Region
No. of Townships4
CapitalMonywa
Time zoneUTC+6.30 (MMT)

Monywa District (Burmese: မုံရွာခရိုင်) (formerly Lower Chindwin District) is an administrative district in southern Sagaing Division, Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative center is the city of Monywa.

Administrative divisions

Townships of Monywa District

Monywa District consists of the following townships:

  Monywa Township
  Ayadaw Township
  Budalin Township
  Chaung-U Township

Monywa District previously also consisted of the following townships, which became Yinmabin District:

Also, it had a township that was annexed to Shwebo District- Tabayin Township.

Borders

Monywa District is bordered by:

Notable residents

Notes

  1. ↑ Burma Gazetteer : Lower Chindwin district, Upper Burma. Office of the Superintendent, Government Printing, Burma. 1912. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  2. ↑ "Lower Chindwin District". geoview.info. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  3. ↑ "Burma: Second-Order Administrative Divisions (Districts)" The Permanent Committee of Geographic Names (PCGN), United Kingdom, from Internet Archive
  4. ↑ "Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map" Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
  5. 1 2 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chindwin, Upper and Lower" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232.