Kyaikto Township

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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.

Kyaikto Township

Township in Thaton District, Lower Burma, lying between 17° 14' and 17° 39' N. and 96° 39' and 97° 15' E., to the east of the southernmost reaches of the Sittang, with an area of 607 square miles. It contains 139 villages, and one town, Kyaikto (population, 6,637), the head-quarters. The population was 29,159 in 1891, and 45,082 in 1901. The Sittang-Kyaikto Canal passes diagonally across the township, which is hilly in the north and east, but fertile and low-lying in the south-west, and has suffered much from erosion in recent years. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 120 square miles, paying Rs. 1,27,500 land revenue.