Kyaw is a town in

Gangaw Township Gangaw Township is a township of Gangaw District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. The principal town is Gangaw. The capital city of Gangaw District is Pakokku Pakokku (, ) is the largest city in the Magway Region of Myanmar. It is situated ...

Pakokku District Pakokku District (, ; also Pagukku District) is a district of the Magway Division in central Myanmar (Burma). It is situated in northern part of Magwe Region. The administrative centre is the city of Pakokku. Pakokku is a largest city of M ...

(

Gangaw District Gangaw District (, ) is a district of the Magway Division in central Myanmar. Pakokku is the capital city of Pakokku District and Gangaw District. In 1926, it became a part of Pakokku Hill Tracts Districts of British Burma until 1948, and was ad ...

), in the north-western part of the

Magway Region Magway Region (, ; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative divisions of Myanmar, administrative division in central Myanmar. It is the second largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, with an area of . Pa-de Dam (ပဒဲဆည်) is one of ...

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 lies on the left (eastern) bank of the

Kyaw River The Kyaw River () is a river of upper Burma (Myanmar) in Magway Division. It is a major tributary of the Yaw River which it enters just below the town of Pauk.Hunter, William Wilson (editor) (1907) ''Imperial gazetteer of India'' (2nd edition) ...

.Burma 1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, NF 46-11 Mount Victoria
U.S. Army Map Service, October 1961

Transport

The railway from

Pakokku Pakokku (, ) is the largest city in the Magway Region of Myanmar. It is situated about 30 km northeast of Bagan on the Irrawaddy River. It is the administration seat of Pakokku Township, Pakokku District and Gangaw District. Pakokku Bridge ...

to the Myittha River valley runs past Kyaw."Map of Magway Division"
Myanmar's Net

Notes

External links

"Kyaw Map — Satellite Images of Kyaw"
Maplandia d Populated places in Magway Region {{Magway-geo-stub