Pyinmana District
| Pyinmana District (2006 - 2009) Naypyidaw District (2009 - 2013) ပျဉ်းမနားခရိုင် (၂၀၀၆ - ၂၀၀၉) နေပြည်တော်ခရိုင် (၂၀၀၉ - ၂၀၁၃) | |||||||||||
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| District | |||||||||||
| 23 February 2006–11 January 2013 | |||||||||||
 Naypyidaw district in Mandalay Region (in red) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Pyinmana (2006 - 2009) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 23 February 2006 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 11 January 2013 | ||||||||||
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Pyinmana District (Burmese: ပျဉ်းမနားခရိုင်) was a district of Mandalay Division, Myanmar. Later it was renamed as Naypyidaw District. In 2011, it was separated from Mandalay Region and organized under Naypyidaw Union Territory. In 2013, Naypyidaw district was divided into two districts, Dekkhina and Ottara.
History
[edit]Yamethin District is a district of Mandalay Division and consists of 5 townships, Yamethin, Pyawbwe, Pyinmana, Lewe and Tatkon. In 2006, the new capital Naypyidaw was built in KyatPyay which was located near Pyinmana. In February 2006, Pyinmana Township, Takon Township and Lewe Township were separated from Yamethin District and formed as Pyinmana District. On 26 November 2008, some areas of those 3 townships were separated and formed Naypyidaw Township with 16 wards and 202 villages. On 28 January 2009, Pyinmana District was renamed Naypyidaw District. On 26 March 2009, Naypyidaw Township was divided into five new Thiri Townships and expanded to a total of 8 townships.
According to the 2008 Constitution, Union Territory was formed with one district and eight townships. On 11 January 2013, Naypyidaw district was divided into two districts, Dekkhina and Ottara.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ "ပြန်လည်ရေးဆွဲနေသည့် မြို့ပြစီမံကိန်း". Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ "နေပြည်တော်ကောင်စီနောက်ခံသမိုင်း". Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.