Kyauktaw Township

Kyauktaw Township (Burmese: ကျောက်တော်မြို့နယ်) is a township of Sittwe District in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. The principal town is Kyauktaw.

Kyauktaw

Kyauktaw (Burmese: ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕ [tɕaʊʔtɔ̀ mjo̰]) is a town in the north Rakhine State of westernmost part of Myanmar. The famous Mahamuni Buddha ရခိုင္မဟာမုနိဘုရား Image was situated near Kyauktaw, in the ruins of the old city of Dhanyawadi.

ေက်ာက္ေတာ္သၾကားစက္ Kyauktaw has many sugar mills and sugar-cane plantations.

ကစၧပနဒီတံတား

The Kispanadi Bridge is located at the entrance to Kyauktaw, traversing the Kaladan River ကုလားတန္ျမစ္ ယခင္ကုလားတန္႔ျမစ္.

Location

Kyauktaw is situated at 65 miles (105 km) far from the north of Sittwe, the capital city of Rakhine State. It is located approximately between latitudes 20° 37' north and 21° 11' north and longitudes 92° 50' east and 93° 88' east from the north of Kaladan (Kispanadi, a Pali word (Nadi=river)) river.

Violence

Kyauktaw has seen there lived native Rohingyas who is aboriginal from Arakan.there are Rohingya population massacred and tortured by the Burmese who have taken over the land in the 2012 Rakhine State Riots.

Area

The areas of Kyauktaw township is nearly 675.55 square miles (1,749.7 km²). Kyauktaw is bordered by Mrauk U, nearly 27 miles (43 km) far from the east, Buthidaung, nearly 30 miles (48 km) far from the west, Ponnagyun, 45 miles (72 km) far from the South and Pallawa Township of Chin State, nearly 40 miles (64 km) far from the north. It is 19 miles (31 km) long from the east to the west and 35 miles (56 km) from the south to the north.