Thayet District
Thayet District (
.History
Upon the annexation of Pegu by the
Ecology
The principal wild animals have historically been elephants, rhinoceros, tigers, leopards, black bears and wild hogs. Silver
Geography
The district has an area of 4750 square kilometers; the total rainfall in a sample year was about 40 inches. On the west is the
Thayet has several salt and hot springs; petroleum has been found (three oil-wells were sunk in 1883 at Pedaukpin, but they were found unprofitable and abandoned), and extensive lime quarries exist a few miles south of the town of Thayetmyo. The limestone mining started sometime in the 1960s to supply a cement factory in Thayetmyo. The limestone quarries were rehabilitated in the early 1980s with German help (GTZ) when the aerial ropeway was replaced by trucks as the principal means of limestone transport from the quarry to the factory. Rehabilitation was required because for many years, only limestone was mined and no overburden removed.
Economy
The chief products are rice, cotton, oil-seeds and tobacco; cutch is also very abundant, as is the manufacture of dye-stuff. In addition to limestone, coal has been found in the district, and a few shallow oil wells are in use. There are 403 square kilometers of reserved forest.
Townships
The district contains the following six
Notes
- ^ "Burma: Second-Order Administrative Divisions (Districts)" The Permanent Committee of Geographic Names (PCGN), United Kingdom, from Internet Archive of 25 September 2007
19°19′N 95°11′E / 19.317°N 95.183°E