Rakhine State
Mrauk-U
Kyauktaw Township

Kyauktaw

Kyauktaw is a town in northern , in the westernmost part of . The famous Mahamuni Buddha image, currently at , was originally situated near Kyauktaw, in the ruins of the old city of Dhanyawadi.
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  • Type: Town with 19,500 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Myanmar
  • Postal code: 07061

Kyauktaw

Latitude
20.84396° or 20° 50′ 38″ north
Longitude
92.97282° or 92° 58′ 22″ east
Population
19,500
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
United Nations Location Code
MM KYT
Open location code
7MGJRXVF+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4827050738
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1316499
Wiki­data ID
Q13642427
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Swedish—“Kyauktaw” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “ကျောက်တော်”
  • Burmese: “ကျောက်တော်မြို့”
  • Chinese: “皎道”
  • Dutch: “Kyauktaw”
  • Irish: “Kyauktaw”
  • Japanese: “キャクトウ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻကျောက်တော်”
  • Rakhine: “ကျောက်တော်မြို့”
  • Shan: “ၵျွၵ်ႉတေႃႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းၵျွၵ်ႉတေႃႇ”
  • Swedish: “Kyauktaw”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kyauktaw”. Photo: Go-Myanmar, CC BY-SA 3.0.