Khawzar (; also spelt Khawsa, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) is a town located in

Mawlamyine District Mawlamyine District () is a(Mon language :ခရီုမတ်မလီု) district of the Mon State in Myanmar (Burma). The capital is Mawlamyine town. The district covers an area of 6,084 km2, and had a population of 1,232,221 at the 201 ...

Mon State Mon State (, ; ) is an administrative division of Myanmar. It lies between Kayin State to the east, the Andaman Sea to the west, Bago Region to the north and Tanintharyi Region to the south, also having a short border with Thailand's Kanchanabu ...

Myanmar 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 has ...

. It is also a sub-township in

Ye Township Ye Township (; Mon: ပွိုၚ်ဍုၚ်ရေဝ်) is the only Townships of Myanmar, township of Ye District () in the Mon State, Myanmar. The Ye District was formed in April 2022 by splitting the singular Ye Township from the rest of ...

. Khawsa lies on the Khawsa Chaung about from the coast of the

Andaman Sea The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated f ...

.Burma 1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, ND 47-02 Ye
U.S. Army Map Service, December 1959 It is protected from the sea by a hill and the Mount Pawdaing rises to the east.

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Township capitals of Myanmar Populated places in Mon State {{Mon-geo-stub