Dagon Seikkan Township (Burmese: ဒဂုံဆိပ်ကမ်း မြို့နယ် ) is an urban township of Yangon, Burma (Myanmar). Located in the east-central part of the city of Yangon (Rangoon). Satellite communities and industry moved into the township in the 1990s, growing from a rural population of under 10,000 to almost 100,000 by 2010. As of 2009, Dagon Seikkan consisted of 39 wards and five village tracts. As of 2000, the township had 10 primary schools, two middle schools and a high school. The township is in an industrial area of the city. Nationalities Youth Resource Development Degree College is located in the township.
As of 2007, Dagon Seikkan is linked to Thanlyin Township by the Dagon Bridge, the second bridge to be built across the Bago River at Yangon.
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“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)