Taunggyi 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 Taunggyi District

Taunggyi District

Taunggyi District is a district of Shan State in Burma. The principal town and administrative center is Taunggyi. This district has 12 towns and 3001 villages.-Townships:The district contains the following townships:*Taunggyi Township*Nyaungshwe Township...

 in the Shan State

Shan State

Shan State is a state of Burma . Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Burma in the west. Largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km², almost a quarter of the total...

 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....

. The principal town is Taunggyi

Taunggyi

-Transportation:The main access to Taunggyi is by road. A railway line that passes through Taunggyi was recently built in 1995, but at the moment it offers no passenger service. Regular railway passenger service to the rest of the country is through the town of Shwenyaung, twelve miles to the...

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Borders

Taunggyi Township is bordered by the following townships:

• Lawksawk
  Lawksawk Township
  Lawksawk Township is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Lawksawk.-Geography:Lawksawk Township is bounded on the north by the townships of Nawnghkio, Kyaukme, and Hsipaw; on the east by Mong Kung and Hopong; on the south by Taunggyi, Kalaw, and...
  
   to the north
• Hopong
  Hopong Township
  Hopong Township is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Hopong....
  
   to the north and east
• Hsi Hseng
  Hsi Hseng Township
  Hsi Hseng Township is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Hsi Hseng.-Towns and villages:Bàn Tet Paw Thwe Chitiwabwa Dawhsaw-hswi Dawlaw-hku Dawta-naw Hang Loi Hko-hpon Hkolai Hko-law Hku-weng Ho-hkai Ho-hko Ho-hpai Hokan Honawng Ho-ti Hpailon Hpaimūn...
  
   to the east and south
• Nyaungshwe (Yawunghwe)
  Nyaungshwe Township
  Nyaungshwe Township is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Nyaungshwe.Inle Lake, a popular tourist site and a inland fresh water lake, is in the south of Nyaungshwe Town....
  
   to the west
• Kalaw
  Kalaw Township
  Kalaw Township is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Kalaw. This township contains Kalaw , Aungban and Heho....
  
   to the west

Formerly, the northern half of Hopong Township was part of Mong Kung Township (Mongkaung Township)

Mong Kung Township

Mong Kung Township is a township of Loilen District in the Shan State of Burma. The principal town is Mong Kung.Sometime prior to 2002, the southern portion of Mong Kung Township was transferred to Hopong Township in Taunggyi District.-External links:* Map, 14 June 2010, Myanmar Information...

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Communities

In addition to the town of Taunggyi itself, there are two large towns in Taunggyi Township: Ayetharyar

Ayetharyar

Aye Thar Yaror Ayetharyar is a town and resort in the Shan State of eastern Burma. It is located just outside of Taunggyi and is a relatively new town. It contains the luxury Aye Thar Yar Golf Resort. Aye Thar Yar Technical High School opened in the early 1990s....

 and Kyauktalonegyi. Among the many villages and wards (village census tracts) in Taunggyi Township are:

Chaunggauk Chaunggauk, Taunggyi Township Chaunggauk, is a village in Taunggyi Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State, of Burma . It lies to the north of the town of Taunggyi.-External links:* Maplandia... Hang Si, Htedaung, Kanpaw Tang-tok, Kon-Kawng, Lothkan,

Mai Tang Hsong, Man Kong, Nyawngkon, Sakangyi, Shwenyaung, and Wan Mansaw.

External links

• "Taunggyi Google Satellite Map" Maplandia World Gazetteer
• "Taunggyi Township Shan State" Map, 14 June 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)