Payagale

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Payagale

Central township of Pegu District, Lower Burma, lying between 17 15' and 17 57' N. and 96 i' and 96 54' E., with an area of 1,236 square miles. It contains one town, PEGU (population, 14,132), the head-quarters of the District; and 242 villages. The township head-quarters are at Payagale, a village of 882 inhabitants on the railway, about 14 miles north of Pegu. The population was 69,822 in 1891, and 93,209 in 1901. The western half of the town- ship is hilly and sparsely populated, and, though the eastern half is a level plain crowded with villages, the average density is only 75 persons per square mile. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 296 square miles, paying Rs. 4,73,300 land revenue.