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Insein District
အင်းစိန်ခရိုင် | |
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District | |
 Informal housing near factories, Hlaingthaya | |
 Insein District in Yangon Region | |
| Coordinates: 16°59′02″N 96°06′58″E / 16.984°N 96.116°E | |
| Country |  Myanmar |
| Region |  Yangon Region |
| City | Yangon |
| Area code | +951 |
Insein District (Burmese: အင်းစိန်ခရိုင်) is a District in Yangon Region, Myanmar. It is a district under the Yangon City Development Committee as part of Yangon and contains Insein Township, Hlaingthaya East Township and Hlaingthaya West Township. The district was created in 2022, being one of the new districts created from the former North Yangon District.[1]
Geography
Insein District is home to Insein Prison, notorious worldwide for its inhumane conditions, corruption, abuse of inmates, and use of mental and physical torture, especially against political dissidents during the 1988-2011 State Law and Order Restoration Council era.[2]
It also contains the two townships split from the former Hlaingthaya Township. This former township was biggest and most populous township in the country with 15% of Yangon's urban population living there. According to the 2014 Myanmar census, 687,864 people lived in the township.[3] This made it the single largest township by population in the country.[4] Hlaingthaya also has a major industrial and factory presence.[5]
Hlaingthaya planned to split the township into two, due to violence and over-population, according to reports in 2019,[6] although no official announcement could be found, the township had already been split in West and East constituencies for the 2020 Myanmar general election.[5] In 2023, the General Administration Department issued documents reporting on the two townships separately stating that the townships had been separated into new townships on the 27 Janaury 2020 according to Legal Notification 32/2020.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "နေပြည်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များတွင် ခရိုင် ၄၆ ခရိုင် အသစ်တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့်အတွက် စုစုပေါင်းခရိုင် ၁၂၁ ခရိုင်ရှိလာ".
- ^ "Asia-Pacific | Inside Burma's Insein prison". BBC News. 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2013-12-25.
- ^ ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံလူဦးရေနှင့် အိမ်အကြောင်းအရာသန်းခေါင်စာရင်း လှိုင်သာယာမြို့နယ် [The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: Hlaingtharya Township Report] (Report) (in Burmese). Department of Population. May 2017.
- ^ ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံလူဦးရေနှင့် အိမ်အကြောင်းအရာသန်းခေါင်စာရင်း ပြည်ထောင်စု [2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: Union Report] (Report) (in Burmese). May 2017.
- ^ a b Thar, Hein (2019-11-06). "Government seeks to tame Hlaing Tharyar, Yangon's wild west". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "Government seeks to tame Hlaing Tharyar, Yangon's wild west". Frontier Myanmar. 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ General Administration Department (March 2023). Hlaing Tharyar (A Shae Paing) Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya လှိုင်သာယာ (အရှေု့ပိုင်း) မြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Hlaingthaya East Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 19 April 2025.
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| Hlegu District | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Yangon |
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1 - partially in Yangon city; 2 - part of Yangon city | |||||||||||||||||||