Situo [2] [3] [4] , Akyab [5] ( Burm. စစ်တွေ ) is the capital of 
Rakhine in Myanmar , the population for 2006 is 181,000 people.
| City | |
| Situe | |
|---|---|
| Burm စစ်တွေ | |
 | |
| A country |  Myanmar |
| State | Rakhine |
| History and geography | |
| Center height | |
| Timezone | UTC + 6: 30 |
| Population | |
| Population | 181,000 people ( 2006 ) |
Sittwe is located on an island at the confluence of the Kaladan , Mayu and Lemio rivers .
From a small fishing village, Sittwe grew up to the port, during the British colonization through Sitt, rice was exported. In 1826, the colonial administration moved from the old capital of Arakan Myohoun to Akyab by the sea. Over 40 years of British rule, Akyab became a city with a population of 15 thousand people, and by 1901 it became the third port in Burma with a population of 30 thousand. In the colonial era, epidemics of malaria and cholera occurred in the city, which, however, was common on the coast of India.
Scottish writer Saki was born in Akyab in 1870 .
Notes
- ↑ GeoNames 2005.
- ↑ Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand // Peace Atlas / comp. and prepare. to ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; Ch. ed. G. V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - p. 132-113. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
- ↑ Sittwe // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / resp. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Pererab. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986. - P. 338.
- ↑ Geographic Encyclopedic Dictionary: geographical names / Ed. A.F. Trёshnikova . - 2nd ed., Ext. - M .: Soviet encyclopedia , 1989. - p. 437. - 210 000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-057-6 .
- ↑ Sittwe // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / resp. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Pererab. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986. - p. 13.