Dekkhinathiri Township () is one of

Naypyidaw Union Territory The Union Territory (Nay Pyi Taw) (), also called Nay Pyi Taw Council Territory () (Nay Pyi Taw also spelled Nay Pyitaw, Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Daw) is an administrative division in central Myanmar (Burma). It contains Naypyidaw, the capital city ...

's eight

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

s, located south of

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Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

. The township is home to Maravijaya Buddha, the world's largest Buddha marble statue.

History

Dekkhinathiri Township was designated as one of the original townships constituting the new capital region of

Naypyidaw Naypyidaw (), officially Romanization of Burmese, romanized as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), is the capital city, capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory. It is unusual among Myanmar's ...

on 26 March 2006 by the

Ministry of Home Affairs (Myanmar) The Ministry of Home Affairs (, ''Pyi-dàe-yè-wun-gyì-ta-ná''; abbreviated MOHA) administers Myanmar's internal affairs. Headquartered in the Myanmar capital Naypyidaw, it is one of three ministries that are directly controlled by Commande ...

(MOHA), comprising 2 wards, 6

village tract A village tract (; also spelt village-tract), also called overvillage, is a fourth-level administrative subdivision of Myanmar's rural townships. As of August 2015, there are 13,602 village tracts in Myanmar, consisting of 70,838 villages. The eq ...

s and 24 villages. It was named Dekkhinathiri Township on 20 January 2011 by the

Ministry of Home Affairs An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement. In some states, the i ...

. ''Dekkhinathiri'' is derived from

Pali Pāli (, IAST: pāl̤i) is a Classical languages of India, classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages, Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pali Canon, Pāli Can ...

, and literally means "splendor of the south."

Demographics

2014

The 2014 Myanmar Census reported that Dekkhinathiri Township had a population of 51,328. The

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

was 328.8 people per km². The census reported that the median age was 25.1 years, and 111 males per 100 females. There were 6,997 households; the mean household size was 3.9.

Ethnic makeup

The

Bamar The Bamar people (Burmese language, Burmese: ဗမာလူမျိုး, ''ba. ma lu myui:'' ) (formerly known as Burmese people or Burmans) are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking ethnic group native to Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). With an esti ...

make up the majority of the township's population.

References

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