Taze Township

Taze Township တန့်ဆည်မြို့နယ်
Township
location of township in Ye-U district
location in Sagaing region
Coordinates: 23°03′04″N95°25′59″E / 23.051°N 95.433°E / 23.051; 95.433
Country	Myanmar
Region	Sagaing Region
District	Ye-U District
Area
• Total	716.34 sq mi (1,855.3 km2)
Population [1]
• Total	198,019
• Ethnicities	Bamar
• Religions	Buddhism
Time zone	UTC+6.30 (MMT)

Taze township (Burmese : တန့်ဆည်မြို့နယ်) is a township in Ye-U District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. The township has only one town- the principal town of Taze, which has four urban wards. The township also has 272 villages grouped into 57 village tracts. The township is very homogenous with 99.98% of the population being of the Bamar ethnicity, and 99.04% following Buddhism. ^[1]

The township has sizeable Pyusawhti militia presence, with military presence increasing in 2024 during the course of the current phase of the Myanmar civil war. ^[2] Earlier that year, Pyusawhti outposts had been sieged by the People's Defence Force resistance troops. ^[3]

References

1. General Administration Department (March 2023). Tanse Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya တန့်ဆည်မြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Taze Township Regional Information](PDF) (Report). Retrieved 22 December 2024.
2. "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း ကန့်ဘလူ၊ တန့်ဆည်နှင့် ကျွန်းလှမြို့နယ်တို့တွင် စစ်တပ်က စိုးမိုးနယ်မြေချဲ့ထွင်နေ" [Military expanding control in Kanbalu, Tantsi, and Kyunhla townships in Sagaing Region.]. Myanmar Now (in Burmese).
3. Moe Oo (8 May 2024). "တန့်ဆည်မြို့နယ် ပျူစောထီးစခန်း တိုက်ခိုက်စီးနင်းခံရ" [Pyusawhti camp in Tan Si Township attacked and raided]. Myanmar Now (in Burmese).