Gangaw
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Gangaw is a town of Gangaw Township
Gangaw Township
Gangaw Township is a township of Gangaw District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Gangaw....

 in Gangaw District
Gangaw District
Gangaw District is a district of the Magway Division in central Myanmar.-Townships:The district contains the following townships:*Gangaw Township*Tilin Township*Saw Township...

 in the Magway Division
Magway Division
Magway Region is an administrative division in central Burma . Magway Region is the largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, with an area of .-Geography:...

 in Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

. Gangaw is also known as the City of Yaw, a certain region in Myanmar including Gangaw, Tilin, Saw and villages around them. Myit Thar river (ျမစ္သာျမစ္) flows from South to North dividing the town into Gangaw and Western Gangaw.

Kale-Gangaw Road was a main road linking Gangaw and Kalaymyo
Kalaymyo
Kalaymyo , also known as Karlaymyo, is a town in the Sagaing Division of Burma. It is located upstream from Mandalay and Monywa on the Myittha River, a tributary of the Chindwin River. The town is the district headquarters of the Kalay District...

 of Sagaing Region. It was 83 miles long, the 59 miles and six furlongs was tarred road and three miles section, three furlongs was gravel road section and 19 miles and seven furlongs was earthen section.

The 4.65 inches (118 mm) rainfall collected in 19 Oct 2011 was the a new record of that town for October of past 47 years. The previous record was 4.21 inches (107 mm) of 3 Oct 1980.
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