Non-paper - 19 April 2017 - Economic Opportunities on the Myanmar-India Border

Sagaing Region Profile

Location: northwest side of Myanmar

Shared borders: Sagaing Region shares a long border with India, where it is adjoined to the State of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, and Manipur. It also shares a boundary with Kachin State, Shan State, Magway Region and Mandalay Region.

Area: 93,527 sq.km (the second largest constituent unit of Myanmar)

Population: 5,325,347 (according to the Myanmar National Population and Housing Census 2014), or 10.3 percent of the total population of Myanmar.

Population density: 56.8 persons per square kilometer, which ranks 9^th in state population density in Myanmar. For the population in urban and rural areas, the census results showed that for every 100 persons, 83 persons live in rural areas while 17 persons live in urban areas.

Economy Overview:

Agriculture is the mainstay of the local economy in Sagaing. Although the main common crop is rice, Sagaing is the main producer of wheat. Other crops are sugarcane, sesame, millet, peanuts, pulses, cotton, and tobacco. Sagaing is the local with main rivers for transportation, communication and trade. The region also has some agro-industrial activities such as rice mills, edible oil mills, saw mills, cotton mills, and mechanized weaving factories. In the other hand, natural resources as gold, coal, salt have been extracted and small amounts of petroleum also produced from the region.

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