Rakhine State
Thandwe District
Taungup Township

Taungup

Taungup, Toungup, or Taunggoke is the principal town of the and Taunggup District in , western . In 2014, the town had a population of 28,652.
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  • Type: Town with 28,700 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Taun Gup”, “Taung-gup”, and “Taunggôk”

Taungup

Latitude
18.8577° or 18° 51′ 28″ north
Longitude
94.2422° or 94° 14′ 32″ east
Population
28,700
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
7MCPV65R+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 243766773
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1293696
Wiki­data ID
Q7688764
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Shan—“Taungup” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “တောင်ကုတ်”
  • Burmese: “တောင်ကုတ်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “တောင်ကုပ်မြို့”
  • Chinese: “洞鴿”
  • Chinese: “洞鸽”
  • Dutch: “Taungup”
  • Irish: “Taungup”
  • Japanese: “タウンガップ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻတောင်ကုတ်”
  • Polish: “Taungup”
  • Rakhine: “တောင်ကုတ်မြို့”
  • Shan: “တွင်ႇၵုပ်ႉ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “တွင်ႇၵူၵ်ႉ”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းတွင်ႇၵုပ်ႉ”

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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 Wikipedia page “Taungup”. Photo: mohigan, CC BY-SA 3.0.