Taungup
Taungup, Toungup, or Taunggoke is the principal town of the Taungup Township and Taunggup District in Rakhine State, western Myanmar. In 2014, the town had a population of 28,652.
- Type: Town with 26,900 residents
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Taun Gup”, “Taung-gup”, “Taunggôk”, “တွင်ႇၵုပ်ႉ”, and “တောင်ကုပ်မြို့”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Taung Gup University.
Taungup
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, residential area, and locality
- Location: Taungup Township, Thandwe District, Rakhine, Western Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
18.8577° or 18° 51′ 28″ north
Longitude
94.2422° or 94° 14′ 32″ east
Population
26,900
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
7MCPV65R+3V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Shan—“Taungup” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “တောင်ကုတ်”
- Burmese: “တောင်ကုတ်မြို့”
- 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: “တွင်ႇၵူၵ်ႉ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းတွင်ႇၵုပ်ႉ”
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