Kawkareik District ( Phlone ; ; also called Dooplaya in

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) is a

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of the Karen State in

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. It consists of 4 towns;

Kawkareik Kawkareik (; my, ကော့ကရိတ်, ; ksw, ဒူဖျၢ်ယၢ်ဝ့ၢ်ဖိ) also spelled as Kawkarike, is a town in Karen State, Myanmar. It is the capital of Kawkaraik District and Kawkaraik Township. History The K ...

, the capital,

Kyainseikgyi Kyainseikgyi (Eastern Pwo language, Phlone: ; my, ကြာအင်းဆိပ်ကြီးမြို့; ) is a town in Kayin State, Myanmar, located on the eastern side of the Zami River. It is the administrative center of the Kyain Seikgy ...

, Kyondoe, Payathonzu and Kyaikdon; and 552 villages. The population as 2014 was 475,191. Kawkareik district in Kayin state

Townships

The district contains the following

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s: *

Kawkareik Township Kawkareik Township ( Phlone ; my, ကော့ကရိတ်မြို့နယ်, ; ksw, ကီၢ်ကရံၣ်ကီၢ်ဆၣ်) is a township of Kawkareik District in the Karen State of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciati ...

Kyain Seikgyi Township Kyainseikgyi Township (Eastern Pwo language, Phlone: ; my, ကြာအင်းဆိပ်ကြီးမြို့နယ်, ) is a Townships of Burma, township of Kawkareik District in the Kayin State of Myanmar. It is the fourth-biggest tow ...

External links

"Dooplaya under the SPDC"
Karen Human Rights Group November 23, 1998, Report KHRG #98-09 Districts of Myanmar Kayin State {{burma-geo-stub