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Pauk () is a town in
Pauk Township Pauk Township () is a township of Pakokku District in Magway Division of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Pauk. The township lies between 21° 10' and 21° 49' north latitude and 94° 18' and 94° 44' east longitude ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
, in north-west
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 the administrative center for Pauk Township. Pauk is located on the western 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) ...
just above its intersection with the
Yaw River Yaw River or Ywa River is a river of Burma, a tributary of the Irrawaddy. It flows into the Irrawaddy on the right (west) just above the town of Seikpyu,
. The current town was founded in 1840. The local airport ICAO designation is VYPK (
IATA code IATA codes are abbreviations that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) publishes to facilitate air travel. They are typically 1, 2, 3, or 4 character combinations (referred to as unigrams, digrams, trigrams, or tetragrams, respec ...
: PAU)."VYPK - Airport"
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Further reading

* Winston, W. R. (1892) ''Four years in Upper Burma'' C.H. Kelly, London
pages 241-242


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Maplandia Township capitals of Myanmar Populated places in Magway Region {{Magway-geo-stub