Taungtha

For the village in Magway Region, see Taungtha, Magway.
Thaungtha
Taungtha[1]
Thaungtha
Location in Burma
Coordinates:
Country  Burma
Division Mandalay
District Myingyan District
Township Thaungtha Township
Government
 • Mayor
Population (2005)
 • Religions Buddhism
Time zone MST (UTC+6.30)

Taungtha[1] or Thaungtha is a town in the Mandalay Division of central Burma (Myanmar). It located southwest of the volcanic cone[2] Mount Taungtha (1788 ft) and above the right (east) bank of the Sindewa (Sintewa) River.[3] Taungtha is the administrative seat for Taungtha Township, and is on both the Taunggyi–Myingyan railway and the Meiktila–Myingyan highway.[3] It is also on the Western Trunk Road from Kyaukpadaung to Natogyi.[3]

Economics

Taungtha is in the cotton growing area of Burma[4] and the China World Best Group completed a garment factory there in 2006.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Taungtha (Approved)" Taungtha at GEOnet Names Server United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. ^ Barber, Cecil Thomas (1936) The Tertiary igneous rocks of the Pakokku district and the Salingyi township of the lower Chindwin district, Burma Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, India, page 134, OCLC 11031035
  3. ^ a b c Burma 1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, NF 46-12 Myingyin U.S. Army Map Service, August 1960
  4. ^ Hunter, William Wilson (editor) (1908) Imperial gazetteer of India, Volume 18, Moram to Nayagarh Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, page 126, OCLC 313474408
  5. ^ Kudo, Toshihiro (2008) "Myanmar's economic relations with China: who benefits and who pays?" pp. 87–112 In Skidmore, Monique and Wilson, Trevor (editors) (2008) Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar ANU E Press, Canberra, page 101, ISBN 978-1-921536-32-8

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Capital: Mandalay
Kyaukse District

Mandalay District
Meiktila District
Myingyan District
Nyaung-U District
Pyinoolwin District
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