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Sagaing Division ▼
SAGAING DIVISION
Capital : SAGAING
Population : Over 5.3 million
Area : 36534 sq.miles
How to get there:
By cruise, train, car
Places of interest
1. Inwa Bridge (the oldest bridge across the Ayeyarwaddy
River)
2. Mingun Bell (the world's largest ringing bell)
3. Nyaung-gan archaeological site
(Bronze age culture influenced)
4. Twin-daung lake (natural spirulina)
Located in the north-west of Myanmar, on the Indian border,
Sagaing Division is home to a population of 5.5 million
inhabitants, spread over 36.534 square miles.
Sagaing, the division's capital, is home to many historical
stupas and today is known as a religious centre, with dozens
of Buddhists nunneries and monasteries as well as an
important monastic hospital.
October and November are the region's busiest months, when
Buddhists from around the country come to offer their
respects and robes to Sagaing's monks, during the full moon
of Tazaungmon.
Near the city limits are the Kaunghmudaw Pagods, a large
whitewashed structure whose name means 'work of great
merit', and Tupayon Pagoda, known for its unusual style; the
stupa is made up of three circular stores, each ringed by
arched niches.
The division is home to the huge Mingun bell, the largest
ringing bell in the woulrd, as well as Inn-wa Bridge, a
British-engneered 16 span bridge that dates to 1934, as was
the only structure crossing the Ayeyarwaddy River until 1998
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