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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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YAMLTHIN  , a

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town and
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district in the
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Meiktila
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division of Upper
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Burma . The town has a station on the railway 275 M . N. of
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Rangoon . Pop . (1901) 8680 . It is an important centre of
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trade with the Shan States . The district lies between the Shan States and the Meiktila,
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Magwe and
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Toungoo districts;
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area, 4258 sq. m.; pop . (
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Tool) 243,197, showing an increase of 18% in the
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decade . The
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staple
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crop is
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rice, which is irrigated from tanks and canals . Millets and oil-seeds are grown in the N., where drought has more than once caused
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distress . There are
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special
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industries of inlaid
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metal-
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work and ornamental pottery . Besides the
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chief town, Pyinmana and Pyawbwe, both also on the railway, carry on an active trade with the Shan States .

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