Kyaikto Township is a township

Township

The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. Township is generally associated with an urban area. However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban...

 of Thaton District

Thaton District

Thaton District is a district of the Mon State in Myanmar. The capital is Thaton town.-Townships:The district contains the following townships:*Thaton Township*Paung Township*Kyaikto Township*Bilin Township...

 in the Mon State

Mon State

Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Region on the north and Tanintharyi Region on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip. The land area is...

 of 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....

. Its principal town is Kyaikto

Kyaikto

Kyaikto is a town in the Mon State of south-east Myanmar. It is part of the Kyaikto Township in Thaton District. It is the nearest town to the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda , a famous landmark in Myanmar.-External links:*...

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There were 157,216 persons with 27,745 households in Kyaikto Twonship according to an answer at Myanmar Parliament in September 2011. And there were one 25-bed township hospital, one 16-bed Theinzayat Station Hospital, one maternal and child healthcare centre, seven rural healthcare centres, 28 rural healthcare branches.