Kawlin

Kawlin
ကောလင်းမြို့
Town
Kawlin is located in Myanmar
Kawlin
Kawlin
Location in Myanmar
Coordinates: 23°47′25″N 95°40′50″E / 23.79028°N 95.68056°E / 23.79028; 95.68056
Country Myanmar
RegionSagaing Region
DistrictKawlin District
TownshipKawlin Township
Area
 • Total1.06 sq mi (2.75 km2)
Elevation
604 ft (184 m)
Population
 (2019)[1]
25,254
 • Ethnicities
Bamar
 • Religions
Buddhism
Time zoneUTC+6.30 (MST)

Kawlin (ကောလင်းမြို့) is a town in the Sagaing Division in Myanmar.[2] Since December 2018 it has been the administration headquarters for Kawlin District as well as Kawlin Township. As of 2019, the town had a population of 25,254,[3] up from 21,431 in 2014.[4] The town is further subdivided into 8 wards.[1]

In late 2023, Kawlin became the first district capital to fall to resistance forces in the 2021 Myanmar civil war.[5]

  1. ^ a b Myanmar Information Management Unit (2019). Kawlin Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya ကေလင်းမြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Kawlin Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). MIMU. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  2. ^ ကောလင်းမြို့ [Kawlin]. Burmese Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Hertford, England: Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. p. 267. (page 43 in part B of volume 1 in the pdf file)
  3. ^ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ကောလင်းခရိုင်၊ကောလင်းမြို့နယ်၏ ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်အလက် [Sagaing Region Local information for Kawlin District, Kawlin Township] (in Burmese). Ministry of Union Government Office (MOUGO), Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Archived from the original on 15 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Myanmar: Regions, States, Major Cities & Towns - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
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