Taungtha or Thaungtha is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in the Mandalay Division

Mandalay Division

Mandalay Region is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is located in the center of the country, bordering Sagaing Region and Magway Region to the west, Shan State to the east, and Bago Region and Kayin State to the south. The regional capital is Mandalay. In the south of the division lies...

 of central Burma (Myanmar). It located southwest of the volcanic cone Mount Taungtha (1788 ft) and above the right (east) bank of the Sindewa (Sintewa) River. Taungtha is the administrative seat for Taungtha Township

Taungtha Township

Taungtha Township is a township of Myingyan District in the Mandalay Division of Burma . Its principal town and administrative seat is Taungtha....

, and is on both the Taunggyi

Taunggyi

-Transportation:The main access to Taunggyi is by road. A railway line that passes through Taunggyi was recently built in 1995, but at the moment it offers no passenger service. Regular railway passenger service to the rest of the country is through the town of Shwenyaung, twelve miles to the...

–Myingyan

Myingyan

Myingyan is a city and district in the Mandalay Division of central Myanmar, previously, it was a district in the Meiktila Division of Upper Burma. It is currently the capital of Myingyan Township and lies along the National Highway 2. , the city had a population of 123,700 and the district had...

 railway and the Meiktila

Meiktila

Meiktila is a city in central Myanmar, located on the banks of Lake Meiktila in Mandalay Division, at the junctions of the Bagan-Taunggyi, Yangon-Mandalay and Meiktila-Myingyan highways. Because of its strategic position, Meiktila is home to Myanmar Air Force's central command and Meiktila Air...

–Myingyan highway. It is also on the Western Trunk Road from Kyaukpadaung

Kyaukpadaung

Kyaukpadaung is a town in Mandalay Region in Central Myanmar. It lies just southwest of Mount Popa. It is the administrative seat for Kyaukpadaung Township.-History:The name of Kyaukpadaung is derived from Kyauk + Pann + Taung ....

 to Natogyi

Natogyi

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Economics

Taungtha is in the cotton growing area of Burma and the China World Best Group completed a garment factory there in 2006.

External links

• "Taungtha Area, Mandalay Division" map ID: MIMU536v01, creation date: 18 August 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
• Satellite map at Maplandia.com