Namsang
ဝဵင်းၼမ်ႉၸၢင် နမ့်စန်မြို့နယ် | |
|---|---|
 A view of Namsang | |
 White Colour is Namsang Township | |
  Namsang Location in Burma | |
| Coordinates: 20°53′20″N 97°44′10″E / 20.88889°N 97.73611°E | |
| Country |  Burma |
| State |  Shan Shan State |
| District | Namsang District |
| Elevation | 992 m (3,255 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 70,000 |
| • Ethnicities | Tai Pa-O Burmese Chinese Shan Burmese Indians Gurkha |
| • Religions | Buddhism Christianity Islam |
| Time zone | UTC+6.30 (MST) |
| Area code | 06161 |
Nansang (Burmese: ဝဵင်းၼမ်ႉၸၢင်) is a town in Namsang District of Shan State in eastern Burma. It is the seat of Nansang Township. It is the biggest city of the eastern central of the Shan State in Myanmar. It is 72 miles away from Taunggyi. A pagoda lies in the southern part of the town. It is also known as Taung Paw Pagoda.
Formation of District
On April 30, 2022, new districts were expanded across the country.[2] Namsang and Kunhing Townships from Loilem District
- Mong Nai Township was separated from Langkho District and formed as Namsang District.[2] The townships and cities included in Namsang District are as follows
Population and Ethnicity
Most people are Buddhist. There are nearly thirty Buddhist monasteries. This region has a population of 70,000 people, most of whom are villagers engaged in agriculture. Only 20,000 people live in town. Most people are Shan. There is chauvinism for few people (Burmese, Paoh, Yinn, Ta'ang, Lahu, Lisu, etc).
Education
Public School
- No(1) Basic Education High School[3]
- No(2) Basic Education High School (Myoma)
- Myo Oo Basic Education Sub High School
- No(5) Basic Education Sub High School
- Air Army Basic Education High School
Private School
- Kaung Myat Private High School[4]
- Brightstar Private Basic School
- Pyin Nyar Young Chi Private Basic School
Health Centers
Public Health Centers[5]
- General Hospital (25 Bedded)
- Army Hospital , 8th MB (100 Bedded)
Private Health Centers[5]
- Khaing Myittar Hospital
- Cherry Hospital
- Myat Mon Hospital
- Moe Makha Hospital
Regional Military Commands (RMC)
For better command and communication, the Tatmadaw formed Regional Military Commands (တိုင်း စစ်ဌာနချုပ်) structure in 1958. Until 1961, there were only two regional commands, they were supported by 13 Infantry brigades and an infantry division. In October 1961, new regional military commands were opened and leaving only two independent infantry brigades. In June 1963, the Naypyidaw Command was temporarily formed in Yangon with the deputy commander and some staff officers drawn from Central Command. It was reorganised and renamed as Yangon Command on 1 June 1965.
A total of 337 infantry and light infantry battalions organised in Tactical Operations Commands, 37 independent field artillery regiments supported by affiliated support units including armoured reconnaissance and tank battalions. RMCs are similar to corps formations in Western armies. The RMCs, commanded by major general rank officer, are managed through a framework of Bureau of Special Operations (BSOs), which are equivalent to Field Army Group in Western terms..
Eastern Central Command Namsang
Eastern Central Command(အရှေ့အလယ်ပိုင်းတိုင်းစစ်ဌာနချုပ်) is saturated Middle Shan state in Namsang. Formed in 2011 Infantry Battalions.[6]
Air Bases
Myanmar Air Force also utilised civilian airfields as front-line air fields in case of foreign invasion.[7]
- Namsang Air Base
- Namsang Airport
Climate
Namsang has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cwa), closely bordering a subtropical highland climate (Cwb). There is a winter dry season (December–March) and a summer wet-season (April–November). Temperatures are warm throughout the year; the winter months (December–February) are milder but the nights can be quite cool.[8]
| Climate data for Namsang (1981–2010, extremes 2001–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 28.5 (83.3) |
30.0 (86.0) |
33.0 (91.4) |
36.0 (96.8) |
35.5 (95.9) |
31.5 (88.7) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.5 (85.1) |
30.0 (86.0) |
29.5 (85.1) |
27.5 (81.5) |
36.0 (96.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 23.8 (74.8) |
26.0 (78.8) |
29.0 (84.2) |
30.2 (86.4) |
27.7 (81.9) |
26.6 (79.9) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.0 (77.0) |
23.5 (74.3) |
22.3 (72.1) |
25.9 (78.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 4.2 (39.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.7 (51.3) |
14.0 (57.2) |
15.1 (59.2) |
16.1 (61.0) |
16.2 (61.2) |
15.8 (60.4) |
14.7 (58.5) |
13.0 (55.4) |
9.2 (48.6) |
5.2 (41.4) |
11.8 (53.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −4.0 (24.8) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
1.0 (33.8) |
5.0 (41.0) |
8.0 (46.4) |
10.0 (50.0) |
10.0 (50.0) |
10.0 (50.0) |
9.0 (48.2) |
4.5 (40.1) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6.5 (0.26) |
9.3 (0.37) |
12.9 (0.51) |
62.3 (2.45) |
252.4 (9.94) |
418.4 (16.47) |
429.9 (16.93) |
391.2 (15.40) |
262.1 (10.32) |
176.1 (6.93) |
79.4 (3.13) |
13.7 (0.54) |
2,114.2 (83.24) |
| Source: Norwegian Meteorological Institute[9] | |||||||||||||
Demographics
2014
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 2014 | 72,098 | — |
| Source: Ministry of Labor, Immigration, and Population data | ||
The 2014 Myanmar Census reported that Namsang Township had a population of 72,098.[10] The population density was 350.1 people per km².[10]
List of Banks being operated
| Name | Address | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Myanmar Economic Bank | Pyi Htaung Su Road, Namsang | 081-2380789, 081-2380164 |
| KBZ Bank 1 | Pyi Htaung Su Road, Namsang | 081-2380824, 081-2380825, 081-2380826 |
| KBZ Bank 2 | Zay Pat (West) Road, 3 Quater , Namsang | Coming soon |
| MAB Bank | Pyi Htaung Su Road, Namsang | 081-2380831 |
| Myawaddy Bank | Pyi Htaung Su Road, Namsang | 081-2380846 |
| AYA Bank | Pyi Htaung Su Road, Namsang | Coming soon |
| CB Bank | Ta Pin Shwe Htee Road, 2 Quater, Namsang | Coming soon |
| Source: Central Bank of Myanmar's List of Private Banks | ||
See also
References
- ↑ GoogleEarth
- 1 2 "နေပြည်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များတွင် ခရိုင် ၄၆ ခရိုင် အသစ်တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့်အတွက် စုစုပေါင်းခရိုင် ၁၂၁ ခရိုင်ရှိလာ". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ↑ "နမ့္စန္ အထကေက်ာင္း ၏ အာစရိယ ပူေဇာ္ပဲြအခမ္းအနား စည္ကားသိုက္ၿမိဳက္စြာက်င္းပ - Kanbawza Tai News".
- ↑ ""ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ကေလးေတြလို ကိုယ့္ႏိုင္ငံက ကေလးေတြ လုပ္ႏိုင္တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အျမင္ ရေစခ်င္တယ္"". 3 August 2019.
- 1 2 "Hospitals in Nansang - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ အေရွ႔အလယ္ပိုင္းတုိင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ တုိင္းမွဴးဒိုင္း ျမန္မာ့သိုင္းၿပိဳင္ပြဲ ဗိုလ္လုပြဲႏွင့္ ဆုေပးပဲြျပဳလုပ္ cincds.gov.mm
- ↑ https://www.shanstate.gov.mm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1969:2018-04-24-04-32-12&catid=50&Itemid=276
- ↑ "Namsang Weather". WorldWeatherOnline.com. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ↑ "Myanmar Climate Report" (PDF). Norwegian Meteorological Institute. pp. 23–36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
- 1 2 "Namsang Township Report" (PDF). 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. October 2017.
