Sagaing Region
Katha District
Katha Township

Katha

Katha is a town in Sagaing Region, . Its claim to fame in the English-speaking world is its connection to author George Orwell, who was stationed here as a colonial policeman from 1926–7.
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  • Type: Town with 26,700 residents
  • Description: town in Sagaing Region, Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Katha, Myanmar”

Katha

Latitude
24.1717° or 24° 10′ 18″ north
Longitude
96.3431° or 96° 20′ 35″ east
Population
26,700
Elevation
335 feet (102 metres)
Open location code
7MPR58CV+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4358196623
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1320155
Wiki­data ID
Q3428825
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Katha” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “কথ”
  • Burmese: “ကသာ”
  • Burmese: “ကသာမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ကသာမြို့နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Katha”
  • Catalan: “Kathar”
  • Chinese: “傑沙”
  • Chinese: “杰沙”
  • Dutch: “Katha”
  • French: “Katha”
  • Irish: “Katha”
  • Japanese: “カーサ”
  • Japanese: “カタ (ビルマ)”
  • Latin: “Katha”
  • Lithuanian: “Katha”
  • Lithuanian: “Katharas”
  • Newari: “कठार”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻကတာ”
  • Piemontese: “Katha”
  • Shan: “ၵၢတ်ႇသႃ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “ၵၢတ်ႇသႃ”
  • Shan: “ၸႄႈဝဵင်းၵၢတ်ႇသႃ”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းၵၢတ်ႇသႃ”
  • Thai: “กะตา”
  • Vietnamese: “Katha, Myanmar”
  • Vietnamese: “Katha”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Katha”. Photo: Oops mth, CC BY-SA 4.0.