Gyobingauk is a town and seat of

Gyobingauk Township Gyobingauk Township is a township in Tharrawaddy District in the Bago Region of 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 northwe ...

Tharrawaddy District Tharrawaddy or Thayarwady District () is a district of the Bago Division in central Burma (Myanmar). The capital lies at Tharrawaddy, Burma. Townships The district contains the following townships: # Tharrawaddy Township #Letpadan Township Letp ...

, in the

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of southern-central

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. It lies approximately 10 kilometres north of

Okpho Okpho (; also spelt Okpo) is a small town and seat of Okpho Township, Tharrawaddy District, in the Bago Region of southern-central Myanmar. It lies south of Gyobingauk and north of Minhla. It contains a hospital, a pagoda, and an open ground in ...

along National Highway 2. It is located roughly 185 kilometres north of

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. The town has a

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history with missionaries. It was reorganized in 1951 as the city headquarters. It is said that the city was named after GyoBinGauk because of buckling Gyo Tree's location at long times ago.

Health care

*Gyobingauk General Hospital *Aung Myin Myint Mo Hospital *GBK Hospital *Gyobingauk Traditional Medicine Hospital

Notable people

* U WinTin (HanTharwady) 1930-2014 - journalist *

Tay Za Tay Za (, ; born 18 July 1964) is a Burmese business tycoon and Chairman of Htoo Group of Companies. He is a close associate of the country's former head of state, Than Shwe. He is the first Burmese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes As ...

(1967-) - businessman

References

External links

Maplandia World Gazetteer
Populated places in Tharrawaddy District Township capitals of Myanmar Gyobingauk Township {{Bago-geo-stub