Palaw Township
Palaw is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township. In 1948, a Bamar militia group threw hand-grenades into a Christmas Eve service in Palaw and killed 80 ethnic Karen churchgoers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 139,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Palaw”
Palaw Township
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Myeik District, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
12.9746° or 12° 58′ 29″ northLongitude
98.6469° or 98° 38′ 49″ eastPopulation
139,000Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)Open location code
7M4WXJFW+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2658864301OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
11154340Wikidata ID
Q7126931
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Ukrainian—“Palaw Township” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “ပုလောမြို့”
- Chinese: “巴洛”
- Dutch: “Palaw”
- Irish: “Palaw”
- Japanese: “パラオ”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပုလော”
- Shan: “ပလေႃး၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပလေႃး”
- Spanish: “Palaw”
- Swedish: “Palaw”
- Ukrainian: “Пало”
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