Taungup Township Explained

Native Name:
Official Name:	Toungup Township
Other Name:	Taungup Township Taunggoke Township Taungoke Township
Settlement Type:	Township
Subdivision Type:	Rakhine Country
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	Rakhine State
Subdivision Type2:	District
Subdivision Name2:	Thandwe District
Subdivision Type3:	Capital
Unit Pref:	Imperial
Population:	114437
Population As Of:	2014
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Density Km2:	auto
Coor Pinpoint:	the geographic center of the township
Coordinates:	19°N 94.375°W
Timezone:	MST
Utc Offset:	+6:30

Taungup or Toungup Township (Burmese: တောင်ကုတ်မြို့နယ်) is a coastal township of Thandwe District in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. The administrative centre and principal town is Toungup. The only other town is Ma-Ei.^{[2] [3]}

Principle villages include:

• Kan Pyin,
• Kyauk Seik Taung,
• Let Pan Kyun,
• Maung,
• Moe Kyauk Gyi Kwin,
• Myo Taung Gyi,
• Nat Maw,
• Nga Lone Maw,
• Pa Dar,
• Sa Lu,
• Tar Ye,
• Taung,
• Thin Chi Kaing,
• Te Mauk, and
• Zee Kwin.
• kindoung
• tayaba
• kyepyin

Pauk Inn (Golden Hill Village)

External links

• Toungup Township - Rakhine State . Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) . 3 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161208232316/http://www.themimu.info/sites/themimu.info/files/documents/Tsp_Map_VL_Toungup_-_Rakhine_MIMU154v04_03May2016_A1.pdf . 8 December 2016 . live . dmy.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rakhine Census by Township: 17. Rakhine State, Thandwe District, Taungup Township . The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: Rakhine State . 2015 . Department of Population, Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, The Republic of the Union of Myanmar . https://web.archive.org/web/20160422220313/http://www.dop.gov.mm/moip/index.php?route=census%2Fdownload%2Fdownload&download_id=336 . 22 April 2016 . live . dmy .
2. Community Based ECCD Centres in Toungup Township . Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) . 25 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160830213310/http://themimu.info/sites/themimu.info/files/documents/Org_Map_Plan_Community_Based_ECCD_Centres_in_Toungup_TS_MIMU1249v01_17Feb2015_A4.pdf . 30 August 2016 . live. dmy.
3. Ma-Ei has a sixteen bed hospital. Web site: Nay Pyi Taw . Annual Hospital Statistics Report 2013 . December 2015 . Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health . 138 .