Thingangyun District

Thingangyun District

သင်္ဃန်းကျွန်းခရိုင်
Thingangyun District သင်္ဃန်းကျွန်းခရိုင်
District
	Aerial view of Thuwunna Stadium
	Thingangyun District in Yangon Region
	Coordinates: 16°49′26″N 96°10′55″E / 16.824°N 96.182°E
Country	Myanmar
Region	Yangon Region
City	Yangon
Government
• Chairman	Htoo Lwin
Area code	+951

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

Administration

The district has four townships- South Okkalapa Township, Tamwe Township, Thingangyun Township and Yankin Township.^[2] The Thingangyun Township Court was upgraded to a district-level court.^[3] The district has an Administrative Committee chaired by U Htoo Lwin.^[4]

Notable Sites

The district is home to Thingangyun Education College and University of Dental Medicine, Yangon The Yankin Children's Hospital and the South Okkalapa Women's and Children's Hospital are also major pieces of health infrastructure for the district and city at large.^[5]^[6] The Yangon Workers' Hospital, one of the city's three Social Security Board-funded free hospitals is located in Tamwe.^[7]^[8]

The city's main sporting venues, the Thuwunna Stadium and the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium are located on the western side of the Thingangyun Township, near the centre of the district.^[9]

Yankin is a thriving commercial hub, with the popular shopping destination Yankin Centre in the township. Public facilities like the Kokkine Swimming Pools, the Myakyuntha Amusement Park on the eastern bank of Inya Lake^[10] and the National Library of Myanmar are in Yankin.^[11] Tamwe Township was first settled in medieval times, dating back to the Hanthawaddy Kingdom and deriving its name from the Mon people of that time.^[12]^[13]

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.
^ "သင်္ဃန်းကျွန်းခရိုင်၌ ခရိုင်အဆင့်ဌာနဆိုင်ရာများ လုပ်ငန်းညှိနှိုင်းအစည်းအဝေးပြုလုပ်" [District-level departments hold work coordination meeting in Thingangyun District]. Ministry of Information (in Burmese). 9 June 2024.
^ "Health Infrastructure" (PDF). Ministry of Health, Myanmar. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2011. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
^ Thein, Cherry (21 March 2011). "Children's hospital opens in Yankin". Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
^ "SSB calls for help to upgrade Yangon Workers' Hospital". Mmtimes.com. 2013-02-25. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
^ "WELCOME TO OUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE -1 YANGON". Um1ygn.edu.mm. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
^ "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့် အားကစား ပြိုင်ဝင်းကြီးများ (၁)" (in Burmese).
^ "ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ့ရႇိ ျမကြၽန္းသာဥယ်ာဥ္အား ေခတ္မီဥယ်ာဥ္ႀကီးအျဖစ္ အဆင့္ျမႇင့္တင္မည္" [Renovations Planned for Myakyuntha Park]. Bi-Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 2010-09-25. Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
^ Thein, Cherry (27 October 2011). "National Library moves to new location in Yankin township". The Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
^ Tun, Than (1988). "Observations on the Translation and Annotation of the Royal Orders Of Burma". Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 4 (1): 91–99. JSTOR 40860260.
^ Banyar, Ko (7 November 2013). "မွန်တို့ဌာနေ ရာမည တိုင်းက မွန် အခေါ်အဝေါ်များ". Phophtaw News Association. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015.

[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] "သင်္ဃန်းကျွန်းခရိုင်၌ ခရိုင်အဆင့်ဌာနဆိုင်ရာများ လုပ်ငန်းညှိနှိုင်းအစည်းအဝေးပြုလုပ်" [District-level departments hold work coordination meeting in Thingangyun District]. Ministry of Information (in Burmese). 9 June 2024.

[5] "Health Infrastructure" (PDF). Ministry of Health, Myanmar. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2011. Retrieved 2008-11-28.

[6] Thein, Cherry (21 March 2011). "Children's hospital opens in Yankin". Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

[7] "SSB calls for help to upgrade Yangon Workers' Hospital". Mmtimes.com. 2013-02-25. Retrieved 2014-06-02.

[8] "WELCOME TO OUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE -1 YANGON". Um1ygn.edu.mm. Retrieved 2014-06-02.

[9] "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့် အားကစား ပြိုင်ဝင်းကြီးများ (၁)" (in Burmese).

[Ref_2010-10] "ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ့ရႇိ ျမကြၽန္းသာဥယ်ာဥ္အား ေခတ္မီဥယ်ာဥ္ႀကီးအျဖစ္ အဆင့္ျမႇင့္တင္မည္" [Renovations Planned for Myakyuntha Park]. Bi-Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 2010-09-25. Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2010.

[11] Thein, Cherry (27 October 2011). "National Library moves to new location in Yankin township". The Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

[12] Tun, Than (1988). "Observations on the Translation and Annotation of the Royal Orders Of Burma". Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 4 (1): 91–99. JSTOR 40860260.

[13] Banyar, Ko (7 November 2013). "မွန်တို့ဌာနေ ရာမည တိုင်းက မွန် အခေါ်အဝေါ်များ". Phophtaw News Association. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015.

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