Insein Township

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Not to be confused with Insein, Kale

Insein Township (Burmese: ????????????????, pronounced [???sèi? mjo?n??]) is located in northern Yangon. The township comprises 21 wards, and shares borders with Shwepyitha township in the north, Hlaingthaya township in the west, and Mingaladon township in the east and south. Insein is home to the Insein Prison, the most notorious prison in the country that houses hundreds of political prisoners.

Video Insein Township

History

Until the 1990s, Insein, about 20 miles from central Yangon, was beyond Yangon's city limits although by the 1980s, Insein was already integrated with the rest of the city. With the expansion of Yangon's city limits in the 1990s which also included founding new satellite towns, Insein was formally incorporated into Yangon.

It was named by Mon; (Mon: ??????? spell as Ancin), which means a precious lake and also a former name of Inya lake.

Insein was a famous battle site in the Burmese civil war that erupted after the country's independence from the United Kingdom in January 1948. Insein was the limit Karen insurgents reached in January 1949 in their ambitious attempt to take Yangon and oust the Burmese government.

Maps Insein Township

Education

Insein has 33 primary schools, ten middle schools and six high schools. Karen Baptist Theological Seminary, the Myanmar Institute of Theology, the University of Paramedical Science, Yangon, Yangon Technological University and are located in the township.