Minhla, Bago

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Minhla
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Minhla
Location in Myanmar
Coordinates: 17°58′40″N95°42′25″E / 17.97778°N 95.70694°E / 17.97778; 95.70694
Country Flag of Myanmar.svg  Myanmar
Region Flag of Bago Region.png  Bago Region
District Tharrawaddy District
Township Minhla Township
Time zone UTC+6.30 (MST)

Minhla is a town and seat of Minhla Township, Tharrawaddy District, in the Bago Region of southern-central Myanmar. It lies approximately 20 kilometres south of Okpho off National Highway 2. [1] [2] It is located roughly 155 kilometres north of Yangon. Its population in 1908 was 2553. [3] Minhla was occupied during the Third Anglo-Burmese War.

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  3. Sir William Stevenson Meyer (1908). Imperial gazetteer of India ... Clarendon Press, Great Britain. India Office. p. 359.