Kyauktaw

Kyauktaw is a town in the north Rakhine State of westernmost part of Myanmar. The famous Mahamuni Buddha ရခိုင္မဟာမုနိဘုရား Image was situated near Kyauktaw, in the ruins of the old city of Dhanyawadi.ေက်ာက္ေတာ္သၾကားစက္ Kyauktaw has many sugar mills and sugar-cane plantations.ကစၧပနဒီတံတားThe Kispanadi Bridge is located at the entrance to Kyauktaw, traversing the Kaladan River ကုလားတန္ျမစ္ ယခင္ကုလားတန္႔ျမစ္.LocationKyauktaw is situated at 65mi far from the north of Sittwe, the capital city of Rakhine State. It is located approximately between latitudes 20° 37' north and 21° 11' north and longitudes 92° 50' east and 93° 88' east from the north of Kaladan (Kispanadi, a Pali word (Nadi=river)) river.AreaThe areas of Kyauktaw township is nearly 675.55sqmi. Kyauktaw is bordered by Mrauk U, nearly 27mi far from the east, Buthidaung, nearly 30mi far from the west, Ponnagyun, 45mi far from the South and Pallawa Township of Chin State, nearly 40mi far from the north. It is 19mi long from the east to the west and 35mi from the south to the north.Rivers Kaladan River (Kispanadi) Pi Chung Priang Chung Thari Chung Pigauk Chung Yoo Chung Minne Chungywar ma pyinClimateKyauktaw has three seasons; the monsoon or rainy season is from May to October; the cool season or winter from November to February and the hot season or summer from March to May. The average temperature range during the summer is from 32 to 40 °C. The average rainfall range during the rainy season is from 431 to 482 centimeters. There was a flood in July 2011.