Kalay
Sign in to saveKalay (), also known as Kale, is one of the largest towns in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. It is located upstream from Mandalay and Monywa on the Myittha River, a tributary of the Chindwin River. The town is the district headquarters of the Kalay District. It has gained importance with trans border movement enabled between Myanmar and India following the Tamu–Kalay section of India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway built by the Border Roads Organization of India under the Look-East Connectivity policy. Consequently, Kalay is now one of the fastest developing towns in Myanmar.
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Place details
- Locality
- ကလေးမြို့
- Region
- စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး
- Country
- မြန်မာ
- Population
- 348,573
- Timezone
- Asia/Yangon
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kalay
- Settlement.native_name
- ကလေး
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Burma
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Myanmar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kale, Myanmar (Burma) - panoramio (2).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.established_date
- 3 February 966 AD
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- ကလေးမြို့
- Country
- Myanmar
- Located in
- Sagaing Region
- Population
- +251590
- Area
- +2337.74
- Elevation
- +450
- Time zone
- UTC+06:30
- Image
- Kalaymyo.jpg
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Saophas
- Geography
- Climate
- Demographics
- Administration
- Education
- Economy
- Religion
- Social infrastructure
- Transportation
- See also
- References
Kalay (), also known as Kale, is one of the largest towns in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. It is located upstream from Mandalay and Monywa on the Myittha River, a tributary of the Chindwin River. The town is the district headquarters of the Kalay District. It has gained importance with trans border movement enabled between Myanmar and India following the Tamu–Kalay section of India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway built by the Border Roads Organization of India under the Look-East Connectivity policy. Consequently, Kalay is now one of the fastest developing towns in Myanmar.
==Etymology== The earlier name of the town ‘Karlaymyo,’ renamed now as ‘Kalaymyo,’ means “a town surrounded by four satellite towns” in the Burmese language. "Kalaymyo" means "town of children" in Burmese.