Kamayut District
Kamayut District
ကမာရွတ်ခရိုင် | |
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District | |
Pyay Road, Kamayut Township | |
Kamayut District in Yangon Region | |
| Coordinates: 16°48′40″N 96°08′38″E / 16.811°N 96.144°E | |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Region | Yangon Region |
| City | Yangon |
| Area code | +951 |
Kamayut District (Burmese: ကမာရွတ်ခရိုင်) is a District in Yangon Region, Myanmar. It is a township of Yangon and contains two townships. The district was created in 2022, being one of the new districts created from the former West Yangon District.[1]
Administration
The district has two townships- Kamayut Township and Bahan Township.[2] The Kamayut Township Court was upgraded to a district-level court.[3] The district connects the northwest and northeast portions of Yangon between Inya Lake to the north and the People's Square and Park to its south.
In 2023, the State Administration Council rolled out a trial of electronic voting in the district as they attempted to organise elections.[4]
Notable Sites
The home where former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi remained in house arrest for two decades is located in the district. The District court attempted to auction the property after the 2021 Myanmar coup d'etat multiple times and received no bidders.[5] Her father Aung San's colonial-era villa, protected as part of the Bogyoke Aung San Museum, is also in Bahan.[6]
Bahan is also one of the most prosperous townships in Yangon. Shwetaunggya (formerly, Golden Valley), Sayarsan Road and Inya Myaing are three of Yangon's most exclusive neighbourhoods.
Kamayut is the "college town" of the Yangon. Pyay Road, which cuts across the township, is lined with many education and media related institutions such as the Myanmar Radio and Television headquarters, Yangon University, the University of Medicine 1, Yangon, the Yangon Institute of Economics, the Yangon Institute of Education and affiliated TTC and University of Distance Education, Yangon are all located in the township.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "နေပြည်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များတွင် ခရိုင် ၄၆ ခရိုင် အသစ်တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့်အတွက် စုစုပေါင်းခရိုင် ၁၂၁ ခရိုင်ရှိလာ".
- ^ "Expansion of new districts: New districts expanded in Nay Pyi Taw, regions and states". Myanmar International Television. 2 May 2022.
- ^ "14 new district courts expanded in Yangon Region" (in Burmese). 19 August 2022.
- ^ "ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ကမာရွတ်ခရိုင်၊ ကမာရွတ်မြို့နယ် မဲဆန္ဒရှင်ပြည်သူများ မြန်မာအီလက်ထရောနစ်မဲပေးစက်ဖြင့် လက်တွေ့စမ်းသပ်မဲပေးလေ့လာခြင်းဆောင်ရွက်" [Voters in Kamayut Township, Kamayut District, Yangon Region, conducted a practical trial vote using Myanmar Electronic Voting Machines.]. Ministry of Information (in Burmese). 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Third attempt to auction off the home of Myanmar's ousted Aung San Suu Kyi fails to draw any bidders". AP News. 5 February 2025.
- ^ "Aung San museum reopens : TTR Weekly". TR Weekly. 2012-04-25. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
- ^ "Kamayut Township". Yangon City Development Committee. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2009-03-14.