Hlaingthaya East Township
Hlaingthaya East township is a township in Insein District, Yangon Region, Myanmar.
Hlaingthaya East township is a township in Insein District, Yangon Region, Myanmar. The township is part of the city of Yangon and is divided into 9 urban wards and 5 village tracts grouping together a total of 9 villages. It is one of the few Yangon city townships with rural settlements. The township was split from the larger Hlaingthaya Township on 27 January 2020 according to Legal Notification 32/2020. While Hlaingthaya is a largely working class suburb, developers have also built luxury housing developments in the southeastern part of the township.
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Worth seeing in and around Hlaingthaya East Township
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bayinnaung Market
Bayinnaung Market, located in northwestern Yangon, is the largest agricultural commodities trading market in Myanmar. The market complex measures 17.880 acres, consisting of 2,549 two-story shop houses with floor areas of 1,200 and 2,400 square feet.
3.1 km · shopping mall in Yangon Division, Myanmar · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hlaingthaya East Township
- Airports
- Yangon (RGN), 8 km
- Stations
- Insein Railway Station, 3.8 km
- Naypyitaw → Hlaingthaya East Township323 km · quickest by road, 6h 15m · $32–44
- Mandalay → Hlaingthaya East Township567 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · $200–300
- Chiang Mai → Hlaingthaya East Township375 km · quickest by air, 4h 51m · ฿2,510–3,890
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hlaingthaya East Township
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hlaingthaya East Township. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAncient buses ferry passengers to their aircraft.
- Get in150 years ago, boats were the way to get to places from Yangon and IWT (Inland Water Transport) passenger ferries still ply the major rivers.
- Get inThe ferry leaves Pyay every Friday at 06:30 and arrives in Yangon on Sunday at 21:40.
- Get inA luxury ferry (the Delta Queen) recalls the colonial era on the Yangon-Pathein route (about 20 hr, US$170/person).
- Get inThe IWT ferry to Pathein takes 15 hr for the overnight trip (US$35/10).
From Wikivoyage: Yangon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Hlaingthaya East Township
Hlaingthaya East Township is 2 km from Hlaingthaya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Insein Townshiptownship of Yangon in Myanmar3.8 km
- Insein Districtdistrict in Yangon Region, Myanmar3.1 km