Palaw Township () is a
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 ...
of
Myeik District in the
Taninthayi Region
Tanintharyi Region (, ; Mon: or ; formerly Tenasserim Division and Tanintharyi Division) is a region of Myanmar, covering the long narrow southern part of the country on the northern Malay Peninsula, reaching to the Kra Isthmus. It borders th ...
of
Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is
Palaw
Palaw (, ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.
In 1948, a Bamar
The Bamar people (Burmese language, Burmese: ဗမာလူမျိုး, ''ba. ma lu myui:'' ) (formerly know ...
. The township has two other towns -
Palauk and Pala.
Administrative subdivisions
Palaw Township is divided into twenty-seven tracts. Six of those tracts are organized into the
Palauk Subtownship which occupies the northern third of the township,
["Palaw Township, Tanintharyi, Myanmar"](_blank)
, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU), 12 August 2010 and which is administered from the town of Palauk.
The township's three townscomprise a total of 13 urban wards. The 27 village tracts additionally contain 163 villages.
Communities
Among the villages in Palaw Township are: Banka, Bodaungseik, Kade, Kataungni, Mintein, Palawgong (Palawgon), Pidat, Tonbu, Wachaung, and Zadiwin.
There are a 50-bed township hospital, five 16-bed station hospitals at Pala, Palauk, Maligyun, Pyinbugyi and Kyaukka, one maternal and child health care centre, one urban health care centre, six rural health centers and 15 sub rural health care centers in 2011.
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References
Townships of Taninthayi Region
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