Shwedaung Township, 1908

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Shwedaung Township

This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Shwedaung Township, 1908

Township in the Shwedaung subdivi- sion of Prome District, Lower Burma, lying along the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy, between 18 i8 / and 18 48 / N, and 95 4' and ij5 21' E., with an area of 300 square miles. The population was 665388 in 1891, and 66,743 in 1901, but the agricultural population increased from 25,700 to 36,300. There are 311 villages and one town, SHWEDAUNG (population, 10,787), the head-quarters. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 87 square miles, paying Rs. 90,000 land revenue.