Mayangon District

Mayangon District

မရမ်းကုန်းခရိုင်
Mayangon District မရမ်းကုန်းခရိုင်
District
	View of Hlaing Township from Inya Lake
	Mayangon District in Yangon Region
	Coordinates: 16°51′40″N 96°09′07″E / 16.861°N 96.152°E
Country	Myanmar
Region	Yangon Region
City	Yangon
Government
• Chairman	Kyaw Thet Khaing
Area code	+951

Mayangon District (Burmese: မရမ်းကုန်းခရိုင်) is a District in Yangon Region, Myanmar. It is a township of Yangon and contains three townships. The district was created in 2022, being one of the new districts created from the former West Yangon District and East Yangon District.^[1]

The district contains Inya Lake, which provides access to recreational activities to city residents. Its economy is primarily based on the service sector, having multiple major hospitals, hotels and various other services like information technology related businesses.

Administration

The district has three townships- Mayangon Township, Hlaing Township and North Okkalapa Township.^[2] The Mayangon Township Court was upgraded to a district-level court.^[3] The district has an Administrative Committee that oversees local government headed by chairman Kyaw Thet Khaing. The other members of the committee are Lt. Col. Phyo Aung Hein, Kyin Win and Ministry of Labour representative Aye Khaing Ohn.^[4]

Notable Sites

The district contains Inya Lake, a 19th century artificial lake popular as green space and water recreation area today.^[5] Within the district, the lake is surrounded by grand homes, including those built by former dictator Ne Win and the Inya Lake Hotel, a gift from Nikita Khrushchev^[6] Besides the areas near Inya Lake, Mayangon also has the upscale neighbourhood of Parami and notable pagodas like Kaba Aye Pagoda where the Sixth Buddhist Council was held from 1954 to 1956.^[7]^[8]

Hlaing Township has become a part of the Yangon city economic core region over the 2010s and is primarily a service-sector economy. Most prominent in sectors are computer services in the Myanmar Information and Computer Technology (MICT) Park and the 18 car showrooms within the township (as of 2018). There are 6 YCDC managed markets within the township alongside 2 privately operated shopping centres.^[9]

North Okkalapa was initially established as part of a satellite town in 1959,^[10] but is now firmly in Yangon city. Mayangon District as a whole forms the area where the city proper transitions into the suburbs.

References

^ "နေပြည်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များတွင် ခရိုင် ၄၆ ခရိုင် အသစ်တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့်အတွက် စုစုပေါင်းခရိုင် ၁၂၁ ခရိုင်ရှိလာ".
^ "Expansion of new districts: New districts expanded in Nay Pyi Taw, regions and states". Myanmar International Television. 2 May 2022.
^ "14 new district courts expanded in Yangon Region" (in Burmese). 19 August 2022.
^ Wai Yan (1 February 2025). "မရမ်းကုန်းခရိုင်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးအဖွဲ့နှင့် မြို့နယ်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးအဖွဲ့၊ မြို့နယ်အဆင့်ဌာနဆိုင်ရာများ၊ ရပ်ကွက်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူးများ လုပ်ငန်းညှိနှိုင်းအစည်းအဝေးကျင်းပ" [Mayangon District Administration Committees, Township Administration Committees, Township-level departments, and Ward Administrators held Work coordination meeting]. Ministry of Information (in Burmese).
^ Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1892.
^ "Secrets of Inya Lake". Frontier Myanmar. 23 November 2024.
^ "Mayangon Township". Yangon City Development Committee. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
^ "On This Day | 65 Years Since Thousands of Monks Began Sixth Buddhist Council in Yangon". The Irrawaddy. 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
^ Myanmar Information Management Unit (October 1, 2019). Hlaing Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya လှိုင်မြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Hlaing Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). MIMU. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
^ Kyaw Kyaw (2006). Frauke Krass; Hartmut Gaese; Mi Mi Kyi (eds.). Megacity yangon: transformation processes and modern developments. Berlin: Lit Verlag. pp. 333–334. ISBN 3-8258-0042-3.

[new-1] "နေပြည်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များတွင် ခရိုင် ၄၆ ခရိုင် အသစ်တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့်အတွက် စုစုပေါင်းခရိုင် ၁၂၁ ခရိုင်ရှိလာ".

[2] "Expansion of new districts: New districts expanded in Nay Pyi Taw, regions and states". Myanmar International Television. 2 May 2022.

[3] "14 new district courts expanded in Yangon Region" (in Burmese). 19 August 2022.

[4] Wai Yan (1 February 2025). "မရမ်းကုန်းခရိုင်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးအဖွဲ့နှင့် မြို့နယ်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးအဖွဲ့၊ မြို့နယ်အဆင့်ဌာနဆိုင်ရာများ၊ ရပ်ကွက်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူးများ လုပ်ငန်းညှိနှိုင်းအစည်းအဝေးကျင်းပ" [Mayangon District Administration Committees, Township Administration Committees, Township-level departments, and Ward Administrators held Work coordination meeting]. Ministry of Information (in Burmese).

[trans-5] Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1892.

[6] "Secrets of Inya Lake". Frontier Myanmar. 23 November 2024.

[yc-7] "Mayangon Township". Yangon City Development Committee. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2009-03-15.

[8] "On This Day | 65 Years Since Thousands of Monks Began Sixth Buddhist Council in Yangon". The Irrawaddy. 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2021-05-08.

[mimu-9] Myanmar Information Management Unit (October 1, 2019). Hlaing Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya လှိုင်မြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Hlaing Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). MIMU. Retrieved March 5, 2021.

[10] Kyaw Kyaw (2006). Frauke Krass; Hartmut Gaese; Mi Mi Kyi (eds.). Megacity yangon: transformation processes and modern developments. Berlin: Lit Verlag. pp. 333–334. ISBN 3-8258-0042-3.

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