Magway Region

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The Magwe Division, also written Magway, is one of the 14 administrative units of Burma (Myanmar ).

Geography

Magwe lies between the Sagaing Division to the north, Mandalay Division in the east, Bago Division in the south and the states of Arakan ( Rakhine ) and Chin in the west between 18 ° 50 'and 22 ° 47 ' north latitude and 93 ° 47 'and 95 ° 55' east longitude. With an area of ​​44,819 km ² the Magwe Division is the third largest division after Sagaing and Bago Division, and among all States and Divisions of Burma, it ranks fifth.

Magwe is located in the central basin of the Irrawaddy, which, coming from Sagaing, in the north- east to the junction with the Chindwin initially until near the town of Chauk forms the border with the neighboring Mandalay Division and thereafter flows through the Magwe Division in a southerly direction and thereby pretty much divided into an east and west half.

The major part of a company wide expanses of the Irrawaddy has created over millions of years. To the west, the Arakan Yoma mountain range forms with elevations up to just over 3000 m is a natural border to the Arakan and Chin state in the east limit the hill of Bago Yomas with heights up to 500 m, the division of Mandalay Division ..

Population

The population was 5.118 million in early 2005. 96.7 % belong to the ethnic group of Burmese at ( Bamar ), 2.4% of the Chin, 0.1% are Arakanese ( Rakhine ). The remaining 0.8 % Karen, Shan and others share.

The majority of the inhabitants are Buddhists ( 98.9 % ), 0.4 % Christian, 0.3 % Muslim, 0.1% Hindu. With a population density of 114.18 inhabitants per km ² Magwe is ranked 5 of the 14 States and Divisions.

Climate

The Arakan Yoma mountain range in the west prevented ample rainfall. The majority of the Magwe Division is located in the dry zone and has steppe climate - hot in the summer months and relatively cold in the cold. The average temperature in April, the hottest month, is 32 ° C and can rise to over 43 ° C. The average coolest month is January at 21 ° C with minimum temperatures up to 10 ° C.

Management

The Magwe Division is divided into the districts of Magwe Minbu, Thayet, Pakokku and Gangaw, which include 25 municipalities and 1,696 municipal districts. The capital city wears like the division the name Magwe. The estimated population was on 1 January 2005 96 966. More cities will be Pakokku in the north- east ( 126 954 inhabitants), Yenangyaung, between Chauk and Magwe ( 110 567 ), Thayetmyo in the South ( 98 197 ), Chauk at the westernmost tip of the Mandalay Division ( 90 882 ) and Taungdwingyi, southeast of Magwe ( 70 103 ). The city Natmauk, about 50 km northeast of the capital Magwe is the birthplace of the founder of Burma's independence from Britain, General Aung San

Economy

First and foremost, be promoted in Magwe Division petroleum and natural gas. The daily output of oil fields in man, Yenangyaung, Chauk, Kyauk - khwet, Letpando and Ayadaw is over 8000 barrel, at the top in all of Burma. Natural gas is delivered into Pay -ye near the town Thayetmyo.

Other industries of importance are cotton mills, tobacco farming, iron and bronze production, cement production, and agriculture. Magwe produced in a large scale cooking oil from peanut and sesame cultivation and therefore has the unofficial title as ' Oil Can ' Burma. More products are millet, maize, sunflower and legumes, along with more chili, onions and potatoes, as well as due to artificial irrigation rice.

In addition, the Indian wood apple or Thanaka tree ( Limonia acidissima, Feronia elephantum ), and Phangar, a drupe, which under the name of Haritaki ( Terminalia chebula Retz. ) Is used in Ayurvedic medicine, cultivated. The bark of the tree Thanaka is used for the production of Thanaka, a whitish- yellow paste, which is applied as a cosmetic to the skin.

Of minor importance in Magwe Division is tourism.

History

In 1978, Burmese archaeologists discovered in the territory of Pondaung on the border of Sagaing Division in the Northeast remains of prehistoric primates, whose age is estimated at 40 million years. It is said to have traded at an animal the size of a small monkey. The species was named Bahinia pondaungensis, according to their location near the village of Ba - in.

For the archeology of the Fund was valuable in that it allowed unique to earlier findings in China primates. Was it previously expected, the origin of man lying on the African continent, so now had to be considered, this look in Asia. After another Pondaung expeditions to the military regime in Rangoon put down in 1997 the Fund, as evidence that the cradle of humanity in Burma is located.

Excavations near the town Taungdwingyi end of the 1950s promoted the remains of the ancient city-state Beikthano to days. The archaeological findings come to the conclusion that here AD, the civilization of the Pyu had its first heyday in the first five centuries.

During the period of British rule, the area of today's Magwe Division to Upper Burma belonged. Until about the year 1940, the Division was called Minbu Division after the city not far from Magwe. In the 1960s was temporarily Yenangyaung capital Magwe Division.

Divisions: Bago | Ayeyarwady | Magwe | Mandalay | Sagaing | Tanintharyi ( Tenasserim ) | Yangon

States: Chin | Kachin | Kayah | Kayin | Mon | Rakhine ( Arakan ) | Shan

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