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| Native name | |
|---|---|
| Official name | Mawlamyaing |
| Pushpin label position | bottom |
| Pushpin map | Burma |
| Pushpin map caption | Location of Mawlamyine, Myanmar (Burma) |
| Subdivision type | Country |
| Subdivision name | |
| Subdivision type1 | State |
| Subdivision name1 | Mon State |
| Subdivision type2 | District |
| Subdivision name2 | Mawlamyine District |
| Subdivision type3 | Township |
| Subdivision name3 | Mawlamyine Township |
| Unit pref | Imperial |
| Area code | 57 |
| Population blank1 | Mons, Burmans, Chinese, Indians, Karens |
| Population blank1 title | Ethnicities |
| Population blank2 | Theravada Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism |
| Population blank2 title | Religions |
| Population density km2 | auto |
| Population total | 300,000 |
| Coordinates region | MM |
| Footnotes | |
| Latns | N |
| Leader name | Brigadier General Thet Naing Win |
| Longew | E |
| Coordinates | 16°29′″N97°37′″N |
| Timezone | MST |
| Utc offset | +6.30 |
It is probably best known to English speakers through the opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay: :"By the old Moulmein pagoda :Lookin' lazy at the sea :There's a Burma girl a-settin' :and I know she thinks o' me".
Mawlamyaing is also the setting of George Orwell's famous 1936 memoir Shooting an Elephant. He served there as sub-divisional police officer. The essay opens with the striking words: :In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people -- the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
During colonial times, Moulmein had a substantial Anglo-Burmese population; an area of the city was known as 'Little England' due to the large Anglo-Burmese community, many of them engaged in the running of rubber plantations; however nowadays this has dwindled to all but a handful of families as most have left for the UK or Australia.
Mawlamyaing is situated in the Salween River delta, where the mouth of the Salween is sheltered by Bilugyun Island as it enters the Gulf of Martaban and the Andaman Sea. It is flanked by low hills dotted with ancient pagodas to the east and west. The city is connected to Pa-an in Kayin State and Dawei and Myeik in Tanintharyi Division by road. It was the rail head to Ye, linked to Yangon by rail only from Mottama (Martaban) across the river by ferry, but today connected by the new Thanlwin Bridge (Mawlamyine) opened in April 2006 .
Mawlamyaing Airport has regular flights to Yangon.
On 27, May 2009, three bomb explosions in Mawlamyaing were blamed on terrorists by the authorities; no casualties were reported.
The first international student of Bucknell University, Class of 1864, Maung Shaw Loo - born in 1839 in Moulmein - was also the first native Burmese to study in the United States.
Category:Township capitals of Burma Category:Populated places in Mon State Category:Old Cities of Mon people
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![Mawlamyaing (also spelled Mawlamyine; Burmese: မော်လမြိုင်မြို့; MLCTS: mau la. mruing mrui.; IPA: [mɔ̀ləmjàiN mjo̰]; formerly Moulmein) is the third largest city of Burma (Myanmar), situated 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin (Salween) river. The city of 300,000 is the capital and largest city of Mon State, Myanmar, and is the main trading center and seaport in south-eastern Burma.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110109153544im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/19/79/e8f9e17482d34f529c2968552b9c_grande.jpg "Mawlamyaing (also spelled Mawlamyine; Burmese: မော်လမြိုင်မြို့; MLCTS: mau la. mruing mrui.; IPA: [mɔ̀ləmjàiN mjo̰]; formerly Moulmein) is the third largest city of Burma (Myanmar), situated 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin (Salween) river. The city of 300,000 is the capital and largest city of Mon State, Myanmar, and is the main trading center and seaport in south-eastern Burma.")
![Taunggyi (Burmese: တောင်ကြီးမြို့; MLCTS: taung kri: mrui.), is the capital of Shan State, Myanmar. Taunggyi has a population of approximately 200,000, making it the fourth largest city in Myanmar[citation needed] (behind Mawlamyaing), and is at an elevation of 4,590 feet (1,400 m) above sea level. The name Taunggyi means](http://web.archive.org./web/20110109153544im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/df/00/6e4927c5b36b31d65d2b803a6445_grande.jpg "Taunggyi (Burmese: တောင်ကြီးမြို့; MLCTS: taung kri: mrui.), is the capital of Shan State, Myanmar. Taunggyi has a population of approximately 200,000, making it the fourth largest city in Myanmar[citation needed] (behind Mawlamyaing), and is at an elevation of 4,590 feet (1,400 m) above sea level. The name Taunggyi means")
![Mawlamyaing (also spelled Mawlamyine; Burmese: မော်လမြိုင်မြို့; MLCTS: mau la. mruing mrui.; IPA: [mɔ̀ləmjàiN mjo̰]; formerly Moulmein) is the third largest city of Burma (Myanmar), situated 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin (Salween) river. The city of 300,000 is the capital and largest city of Mon State, Myanmar, and is the main trading center and seaport in south-eastern Burma.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110109153544im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/19/79/e8f9e17482d34f529c2968552b9c_thumb.jpg "Mawlamyaing (also spelled Mawlamyine; Burmese: မော်လမြိုင်မြို့; MLCTS: mau la. mruing mrui.; IPA: [mɔ̀ləmjàiN mjo̰]; formerly Moulmein) is the third largest city of Burma (Myanmar), situated 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin (Salween) river. The city of 300,000 is the capital and largest city of Mon State, Myanmar, and is the main trading center and seaport in south-eastern Burma.")
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