Monywa District

Monywa District မုံရွာခရိုင်
District
Coordinates: 22°07′N95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°E / 22.117; 95.133
Country	Myanmar
Region	Sagaing Region
No. of Townships	4
Capital	Monywa
Time zone	UTC+6.30 (MMT)

Monywa District (Burmese : မုံရွာခရိုင်) (formerly Lower Chindwin District) ^{[1] [2]} is an administrative district in southern Sagaing Division, Burma (Myanmar). ^[3] 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:

• Kani Township
• Pale Township
• Salingyi Township
• Yinmabin Township

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

Borders

Monywa District is bordered ^[4] by:

• Mawlaik District to the north, ^[5]
• Yinmabin District to the west,
• Sagaing District to the south ^[5]

Notable residents

• Aung Khin, Burmese painter

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. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chindwin, Upper and Lower"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232.