Seikphyu Township is a

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

in Magway Division of

Burma (Myanmar) Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. The principal town and administrative seat is Seikphyu. The township has its southeastern border along the

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where its principal town, Seikphyu, is a port. The township lies between 20° 51' and 21° 15' north latitude and 94° 09' and 94° 48' east longitude. The Yaw River forms the township's eastern boundary. It is one of the areas destroyed by Cyclone Giri on 23 October 2010.

Borders

Seikphyu Township is bordered"Myanmar States/Divisions & Townships Overview Map"
Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) by: * Pauk Township, to the north, *

Pakokku Township Pakokku Township ( my, ပခုက္ကူ မြို့နယ်) is a township of Pakokku District in Magway Division of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Pakokku. The township has its eastern and southeastern ...

, to the northeast and east, * Chauk Township, to the southeast, * Salin Township, to the south, and *

Saw Township Saw Township ( my, ဆောမြို့နယ်, ) is a township of Pakokku District in the Magway Region of Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Saw A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain ...

, to the west.

Economy

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is the major

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of the township.

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from Seikphyu Township is famous in

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market of

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is grown along the sandbank of Yaw River from December to April.

Secret projects

The

State Peace and Development Council The State Peace and Development Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ ; abbreviated SPDC or , ) was the offi ...

is constructing 2 secret nuclear suspected military projects on the northern side of Seikphyu Township along with other secret projects in Mindon, Padan,

Pwintbyu Pwintbyu ( my, ပွင့်ဖြူမြို့) is the principal town of Pwintbyu Township in Minbu District in Magway Region of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions ...

Sidoktaya Sidoktaya, also Sitoktaya or Setoketaya ( my, စေတုတ္တရာမြို့) is a town and seat of Sidoktaya Township in Minbu District of Magway Division, situated in middle west region of Burma. It is bordered with Sali ...

, Salin,

Pakkoku Pakokku ( my, ပခုက္ကူမြို့, ) is the largest city in the Magway Region of Myanmar. It is situated about 30 km north-east of Bagan on the Irrawaddy River. It is the administration seat of Pakokku Township , Pakokku District ...

, Laung Shay (in Saw Township) and Saw Townships.The Irrawaddy, Junta Constructing Tunnel in Magway
/ref> Actually, the sites in Seikphyu Township are 2 factories for the production of military weapons and are not the nuclear projects.

Notes

External links

Admin map, 2011, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)

"Seikpyu Google Satellite Map"
map of administrative area with listing of principal settlements, from Maplandia World Gazetteer
"Seik Phyu Township - Magway Division"
map, 8 June 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) {{Magway Division Townships of Magway Region