Daik-U Township


Daik-U Township is a township in Bago District in the Bago Region of Burma. The principal town is Daik-U.

History

Prior to the Second Anglo-Burmese War, the area around Daik U was composed of small villages. After the British built a railway between Rangoon and Pyuntaza in 1878, with a railway station at Daik U, a bustling village emerged, accelerated by the construction of a highway between Rangoon and Mandalay in 1923.

Demographics

2014

The 2014 Myanmar Census reported that Daik-U Township had a population of 202,530. The population density was 157.3 people per km². The census reported that the median age was 25.9 years, and a sex ratio of 91 males per 100 females. There were 45,753 households; the mean household size was 4.3.

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