Magway Region at 300,000). Other major city are Pakokku, Aunglan, Yenangyaung and Minbu. The population of Magway Region is 3,912,711 in 2014. Over 95% the people are Bamar, with very small numbers of minorities such as Chin, Rakhine, Karen, Shan, and others, including a tiny Anglo-Burmese population. During colonial times, this part of Burma had a large Anglo-Burmese population, descended from Western oil workers and their Burmese partners. Approximately 98% of the population is Buddhist. The Irrawaddy River is the major transportation system in Magway Region, both in terms of volume of goods and population served. Most major towns in the region
Bago Region trip from Yangon. The Shwegyin Dam is in the eastern part Bago Region. It is a long, wide and thick zone-type dam with a water storage capacity of 2,078,417 megalitres . The three concrete conduit pipes are in length, in width and in height each. The intake infrastructure is long, wide and high. The spillway is long, wide and high. Two compressed steel pipe lines at the dam are in diameter and in length each. The power plant is long, wide and high. It is equipped with four 18.75-MW Francis vertical shaft turbines. It can generate 262 million KW hours