Botataung Township ( ; also Botahtaung Township) is an area of

Yangon Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev ...

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. Named after the Botahtaung Pagoda, the township consists of ten wards, and shares borders with

Pazundaung Township Pazundaung Township ( ) is a township located in the southeastern part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township consists of ten wards, and shares borders with Botataung Township in the west and the south, Mingala Taungnyunt Township in the northwest, ...

is in the north and the east, Seikkan Township and Yangon River in the south,

Kyauktada Township Kyauktada Township ( ) is the center of downtown Yangon, Myanmar. The township consists of nine wards, and shares borders with Botataung Township in the east, Seikkan Township and Yangon River in the south, Pabedan Township in the west and Mi ...

in the west and Mingala Taungnyunt township in the north. The township has five primary schools, two middle schools, six high schools and a university. The township is home to three public and three private hospitals, including East Yangon General Hospital, also called Gandhi Hospital, one of the major hospitals in

. One of the country's two

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dailies ''

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'', is based out of here. (The township used to boast four national dailies--''Kyemon'', and the now defunct newspapers, '' The Botathaung'' and '' Loketha Pyithu Neizin'', the Burmese-language version of the Working People's Daily.) Yangon St Marys Cathedral 2017

In October 2012, Pearl Land Company won a rental bid from the Myanma Port Authority to redevelop the Botahtaung jetty into a

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with

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Population

As of March 2018, population in Botataung Township is reported to be around 40,000 with a majority of females being over 21,000 and males being over 18,000.

Landmarks

As Botahtaung township was part of the original city plan implemented by the British, it still has many colonial era buildings. Some of the buildings and structures of "architectural significance" are now designated landmarks by the Yangon City Development Committee.

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{{Administrative divisions of Burma (Myanmar) Townships of Yangon

Population

Landmarks

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