Nansang Explained

Namsang
Other Name:နမ့်စန်မြို့
Native Name:ဝဵင်းၼမ်ႉၸၢင်
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Myanmar
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Myanmar
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Myanmar
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Namsang District
Subdivision Type3:Township
Subdivision Name3:Namsang Township
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Sq Mi:1594.62
Area Code:06161
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:26060
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:MMT
Utc Offset:+6.30
Coordinates:20.8889°N 97.7361°W
Elevation Footnotes:[2]
Elevation M:992

Nansang (Burmese: ဝဵင်းၼမ်ႉၸၢင်) or Namsang is a town in Namsang District of Shan State in eastern Myanmar. It is the seat of Nansang Township. It is the biggest settlement of the eastern central area of the Shan State in Myanmar with 26,060 people in 2019. Most residents live in Ward 4, the northwest part of the town.[1] It is 72 miles away from Taunggyi. A pagoda lies in the southern part of the town. It is also known as Taung Paw Pagoda.

Formation of District

On April 30, 2022, new districts were expanded across the country.[3] Namsang and Kunhing Townships from Loilem District and Mong Nai Township from Langkho District were separated to form as Namsang District.[3] The townships and towns included in Namsang District are as follows

Population and Ethnicity

Most people are Buddhist. There are nearly thirty Buddhist monasteries. This region has a population of 70,000 people, most of whom are villagers engaged in agriculture. Only 20,000 people live in town. Most people are Shan. There is chauvinism for few people (Burmese, Paoh, Yinn, Ta'ang, Lahu, Lisu, etc).

Education

Public School

Private School

Health Centers

Public Health Centers[6]

Private Health Centers

Air Bases

Myanmar Air Force also utilised civilian airfields as front-line air fields in case of foreign invasion.[7]

Climate

Namsang has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cwa), closely bordering a subtropical highland climate (Cwb). There is a winter dry season (December–March) and a summer wet-season (April–November). Temperatures are warm throughout the year; the winter months (December–February) are milder but the nights can be quite cool.[8]

Demographics

2014

The 2014 Myanmar Census reported that Namsang Township had a population of 72,098.[9] The population density was 350.1 people per km².

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Myanmar Information Management Unit . September 2019 . Nansan Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya. my:နမ့်စန်မြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ. Nansang Township Regional Information . MIMU . August 6, 2024.
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  3. Web site: နေပြည်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များတွင် ခရိုင် ၄၆ ခရိုင် အသစ်တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့်အတွက် စုစုပေါင်းခရိုင် ၁၂၁ ခရိုင်ရှိလာ. Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd. 5 May 2023.
  4. Web site: နမ့္စန္ အထကေက်ာင္း ၏ အာစရိယ ပူေဇာ္ပဲြအခမ္းအနား စည္ကားသိုက္ၿမိဳက္စြာက်င္းပ - Kanbawza Tai News.
  5. Web site: "ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ကေလးေတြလို ကိုယ့္ႏိုင္ငံက ကေလးေတြ လုပ္ႏိုင္တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အျမင္ ရေစခ်င္တယ္". 3 August 2019.
  6. Web site: Hospitals in Nansang - Google Search . 2023-05-09 . www.google.com.
  7. https://www.shanstate.gov.mm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1969:2018-04-24-04-32-12&catid=50&Itemid=276
  8. Web site: Namsang Weather. WorldWeatherOnline.com. 5 May 2023.
  9. Web site: Namsang Township Report. October 2017. 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census.