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SAGAING

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 1001 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAGAING  , a

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district and division of Upper
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Burma, lying to the south and west of
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Mandalay . The district has ass
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area of 1862 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 282,658, showing an increase of 15% in the decade . It occupies both banks of the Irrawaddy, at its confluence with the
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river Chindwin . The chief crops are sesamum, millet, rice, peas, wheat and cotton . The
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total rainfall in 1905 was 34.76 in., taken at Sagaing . In the hot season the maximum shade temperature rises to a little over loci° F . The lowest readings in the cold season
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average about 56° F . Sagaing, the headquarters
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town, is opposite
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Ava, a few miles below Mandalay; pop . (1901) 9643, It was formerly a capital of Burma . It is the
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terminus of the railway to
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Myitkyina . A steam ferry connects with the
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Rangoon-Mandalay
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line, and the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla
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Company call daily .

The Sagaing division includes the four districts of Upper and

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Lower Chindwin,
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Shwebo and Sagaing; area, 29,566 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 1,000,483 .

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