Insein District () is a

District A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

Yangon Region Yangon Region (, ; formerly Rangoon Division and Yangon Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar. Located in central Myanmar, the region is bordered by Bago Region to the north and east, the Gulf of Martaban to the south, and Ayeyarwady ...

, Myanmar. It is a district under the

Yangon City Development Committee Yangon City Development Committee (, abbreviated YCDC) is the administrative body of Yangon, the largest city and former capital of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 18 departments, with headquarters in the Yangon City Hall. The committee's chairman ...

as part 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 ...

and contains

Insein Township Insein Township (, ) is located in northern Yangon. The township comprises 21 wards, and shares borders with Shwepyitha township in the north, Hlaingthaya township in the west, Mingaladon township in the east and Mayangon township in the s ...

Hlaingthaya East Township Hlaingthaya East township () is a township in Insein District, Yangon Region, Myanmar. The township is part of the city of Yangon and is divided into 9 urban wards and 5 village tracts grouping together a total of 9 villages. It is one of the f ...

and

Hlaingthaya West Township Hlaingthaya West township () is a township in Insein District, Yangon Region, Myanmar. The township is the westernmost part of the city of Yangon and is divided into 11 urban wards and 4 village tracts grouping together a total of 9 villages. I ...

. The district was created in 2022, being one of the new districts created from the former

North Yangon District North Yangon District is a district of the Yangon Region in Myanmar. Townships * East Hlaingthaya * Hlegu * Hmawbi * Htantabin * Insein * Mingaladon * Shwepyitha * Taikkyi Taikkyi () is the capital town of Taikkyi District in northern ...

Geography

Insein District is home to

Insein Prison Insein Prison () is located in Yangon Division, near Yangon (Rangoon), the old capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma). From 1988 to 2011 it was run by the military junta of Myanmar, named the State Law and Order Restoration Council from 1988 to 2003 ...

, notorious worldwide for its inhumane conditions, corruption, abuse of inmates, and use of mental and physical torture, especially against

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era. It also contains the two townships split from the former Hlaingthaya Township. This former township was biggest and most populous township in the country with 15% of Yangon's urban population living there. According to the 2014 Myanmar census, 687,864 people lived in the township. This made it the single largest township by population in the country. Hlaingthaya also has a major industrial and factory presence. Hlaingthaya planned to split the township into two, due to violence and over-population, according to reports in 2019, although no official announcement could be found, the township had already been split in West and East constituencies for the

2020 Myanmar general election General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2020. Voting occurred in all constituencies, excluding seats appointed by or reserved for the military, to elect members to both the upper house — the Amyotha Hluttaw (the House of Nation ...

. In 2023, the

General Administration Department The General Administration Department (, abbreviated GAD) is a civil service body that staffs all regional and state-level governments in Myanmar and provides administration for the country's myriad districts and townships. It also plays a centra ...

issued documents reporting on the two townships separately stating that the townships had been separated into new townships on the 27 January 2020 according to Legal Notification 32/2020.

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Districts of Myanmar Yangon Region 2022 establishments in Myanmar {{Yangon-geo-stub

Geography

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