Indaw
Sign in to saveIndaw (, ) is a town in northern Myanmar and is the principal town of Indaw Township, Katha District, Sagaing Region. It is located south-east of Indaw Lake. The rail junction at Naba is located about to the north-east of the town.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in MM, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Indaw is referenced by 159 other articles, and connects out to Myanmar Standard Time, Myaung and Myanmar.
It is catalogued under topics including Indaw Township, Populated places in Katha District and Township capitals of Myanmar.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Indaw
- Region
- စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး
- Country
- မြန်မာ
- Population
- 10,706
- Timezone
- Asia/Yangon
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Myanmar
- Located in
- Indaw Township
- Elevation
- 118
- Time zone
- UTC+06:30
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Indaw (, ) is a town in northern Myanmar and is the principal town of Indaw Township, Katha District, Sagaing Region. It is located south-east of Indaw Lake. The rail junction at Naba is located about to the north-east of the town.
==History== thumb|left|Jeepomotive|Rail Jeep strings signal wire on [[Pinwe to Naba Junction railroad in Burma on December 15, 1944]] In 1944 during World War II, a major campaign was fought in Indaw between Japanese and British forces. The Japanese had two airfields at Indaw, the Indaw West strip and the Indaw Lake strip.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indaw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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