Monywa District

District in Sagaing Region, Burma

Monywa District မုံရွာ
District
22°07′N 95°08′E / 22.117°N 95.133°E / 22.117; 95.133
Country	Burma
Region	Sagaing Region
No. of Townships	4
Capital	Monywa
Time zone	UTC+6.30 (MST)

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

Monywa District consists of the following townships:

Ayadaw Township
Budalin Township
Chaung-U Township
Monywa Township

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

Also, it had a township that has recently been 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

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