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Pindaya Township

human settlement in Myanmar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ7195012 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pindaya Township (Burmese: ပင်းတယမြို့နယ်; also spelled Pingdaya or Pangtara) is a township located within the Danu Self-Administered Zone, Shan State, Myanmar. The principal town is Pindaya. The township also contains 137 villages grouped into 27 village tracts. Prior to 2008 it was part of Taunggyi District.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Pindaya Township” as human settlement in Myanmar. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pindaya, Township and human.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pindaya, Township and human providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Pindaya Township”, the useful work is to connect “human settlement in Myanmar” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7195012. Authority coordinates are 20.942, 96.663. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pindaya Township” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.