Northern Myanmar
Sagaing Region
Tamu District

Tamu

Tamu is a town of 44,000 people in near the border with the eastern Indian state of Manipur. Tamu is something of a transport hub for cross-border traffic to India, being just across the border from Moreh.
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  • Type: City with 105,000 residents
  • Description: town in Sagaing Region, Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Tamu township”, “Tamu, Burma”, and “Tamu, Myanmar”

Tamu

Latitude
24.2125° or 24° 12′ 45″ north
Longitude
94.3074° or 94° 18′ 27″ east
Population
105,000
Elevation
466 feet (142 metres)
Open location code
7MPP6864+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 169977258
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
11154190
Wiki­data ID
Q3514896
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Spanish—“Tamu” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “တမူး”
  • Burmese: “တမူးမြို့”
  • Chinese: “塔姆”
  • Chinese: “塔木”
  • Chinese: “德穆”
  • Czech: “Tamu”
  • French: “Tamu”
  • Indonesian: “Tamu, Myanmar”
  • Japanese: “タム (ビルマ)”
  • Japanese: “タム (ミャンマー)”
  • Japanese: “タム,ミャンマー”
  • Korean: “따무”
  • Korean: “타무”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻတမူး”
  • Polish: “Tamu (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Tamu”
  • Shan: “တူပ်းမိုဝ်း၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “တူပ်းမိုဝ်း”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းတူပ်းမိုဝ်း”
  • Spanish: “Tamu (Birmania)”
  • Spanish: “Tamu”

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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 “Tamu”. Photo: rheins, CC BY 3.0.