Toungoo Township

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

Toungoo Township, 1908

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.

Head-quarters township of Toungoo Dis- trict, Lower Burma, lying between 18° 52' and 19° 11' N. and 96° V and 96° 37' E., with an area of 295 square miles. It is comparatively small, forming a wedge driven in between the large townships of Yedashe and Pyu, with its base lying along the eastern boundary of the Sittang plain, and its point in the Pegu Yoma. The population was 49,490 in 189 1, and 48,962 in 1901 (including 3,604 Shans and 1,077 Karens), distributed in one town, Toungoo (population, 15,837), the head-quarters of the District and township, and 227 villages. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 45 square miles, paying Rs. 53,000 land revenue.