Insein District
Insein District is a District in Yangon Region, Myanmar.

Insein District is a District in Yangon Region, Myanmar. It is a district under the Yangon City Development Committee as part of Yangon and contains Insein Township, Hlaingthaya East Township and Hlaingthaya West Township. The district was created in 2022, being one of the new districts created from the former North Yangon District.
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Worth seeing in and around Insein District
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.
- 01Hlawga National Park
Hlawga Park is an open zoo covering 6.23 km2 that was established in 1982. It was created to protect evergreen, mixed deciduous and swamp forest and for environmental education.
2.3 km · national park in Myanmar · Wikipedia
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Getting to Insein District
- Airports
- Yangon (RGN), 9 km · Nay Pyi Taw (NYT), 294 km
- Stations
- UCSY Railway Station, 3.3 km
- Naypyitaw → Insein District321 km · quickest by air, 6h 14m · $150–230
- Mandalay → Insein District566 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · $190–280
- Chiang Mai → Insein District371 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · ฿2,500–3,870
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Insein District
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 Insein District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Insein District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Insein District
Insein District is 16 km from Hlaingthaya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mingaladon Townshiptownship of Yangon in Myanmar2.5 km