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.- Town with about 139,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 290 feet (90 metres)
- …is also known as “Palaw”
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
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Latitude
12.9746° or 12° 58′ 29″ north
Longitude
98.6469° or 98° 38′ 49″ east
Open location code
7M4WXJFW+RQ
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Ukrainian—“Palaw Township” goes by many names.
ပုလောမြို့Burmese
巴洛Chinese
PalawDutch
PalawIrish
パラオJapanese
ဝေင်ꩻပုလောPa'o Karen
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