Kyauktaw
Kyauktaw is a town in northern Rakhine State, in the westernmost part of Myanmar. The famous Mahamuni Buddha image, currently at Amarapura, was originally situated near Kyauktaw, in the ruins of the old city of Dhanyawadi.- Type: Town with 19,500 residents
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Postal code: 07061
Kyauktaw
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Kyauktaw Township, Mrauk-U, Rakhine, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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