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Burma Districts

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[[Burma]] was a province of the Bengal Presidency until 1937. <br>The administrative districts were:
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| Pegu
Lower Burma| [[HanthawaddyDistrict|Hanthawaddy]]Split in 1912 into<br>Insein and<br>Syriam
| [[Rangoon]]
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| [[Pegu]]
|-
| Prome
| Tharrawaddy
| [[Tharrawaddy]]
|-
|
| Prome
| [[Prome]]|-|ArakanLower Burma|Akyab|[[Akyab]]|-||Northern Arakan(or Arakan Hill Tracts)|Paletwa|-||Kyaukpyu|[[Kyaukpyu]]|-||Sandoway|Sandoway
|-
| Irrawaddy
Lower Burma
| Bassein
| Bassein| [[Bassein]]
|-
|
| HenzadaMyaungmya| [[Myaungmya]]
|-
|
| Thayetmyo
| [[]]
|-
| Delta
| Ma-ubin
| [[Ma-ubin]]
|-
|
| MyaungmaPyapon| [[Pyapon]]
|-
|
| PyaponHenzada| [[Henzada]]
|-
 
| Tenasserim
Lower Burma| Toungoo|[[Toungoo]]|-| | Salween| [[Papun]]
|-
|
| Thaton
| [[Thaton]]
|-
|
| Amherst
| [[Moulmein]]
|-
|
| Tavoy
| [[Tavoy]]
|-
|
| Mergui
| [[Mergui]]|-|MandalayUpper Burma|Mandalay|[[Mandalay]]|-||Bhamo|[[Bhamo]]|-||Myitkyina |Myitkyina |-||Katha|[[Katha]]|-||Ruby Mines |Mogok|-|Meiktila Upper Burma|Kyaukse|Kyaukse|-||Meiktila|[[Meiktila]]|-||Yamethin|[[Yamethin]]|-||Myingyan|Myingyan|-| MinbuUpper Burma| Thayetmyo| [[Thayetmyo]]|-| | Minbu| [[Minbu]]|-| | Magwe| [[Magwe]]|-| | Pakokku| [[Pakokku]]|-|SagaingUpper Burma|Sagaing|Sagaing|-||Lower Chindwin |Monywa|-||Upper Chindwin |Kindat|-
|}
In addition there were areas such as the Northern Shan States, Southern Shan States, Chin Hills, and Pakokku Chin Hills.
 
==Also see==
*[[Gazetteers#Burma| Gazetteers - Burma]]
==External links==
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Burma Burma] 1911 Love to Know<br>===Historical books online===*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=9&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V09_112.gif Burma] Imperial Gazetteer*[https://archive.org/details/hilltractsofarak00hughrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Hill Tracts of Arakan''] by Major W. Gwynne Hughes 1881 Archive.org.*The ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series Burma'' 1908 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.146790 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.120373 Volume II] Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. [[Category:Districts| Burma Districts]] [[Category:Burma]]
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