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city and See also:district in the See also:Arakan See also:division of See also:Burma. The city is situated at the confluence of the three large See also:rivers Myu, Koladaing and Lemyu, and is the most flourishing city in the Arakan division. Originally it was a See also:mere fishing See also:village, but when the See also:British See also:government in 1826 removed the restrictions on See also:trade imposed by the Burmese, Akyab quickly See also:grew into an important seat of maritime See also:commerce. After the cession of Arakan by the treaty of Yandaboo in that See also:year the old See also:capital of Myohaung was abandoned as the seat of government, and Akyab on the See also:sea-See also:coast selected instead. During the first See also:forty years of British See also:rule it increased from a village to a See also:town of 15,536 inhabitants, and now it is the third See also:port of Burma, with a See also:population in 19o1 of 31,687. It contains the usual public buildings and several large See also:rice See also:mills. The See also:chief exports are rice and oil. The district lies along the See also:north-eastern shores of the See also:Bay of See also:Bengal, with an See also:area of 5136 sq. m. and a population in 1901 of 481,666. It forms the northernmost district of See also:Lower Burma, and consists of the level See also:tract lying between the sea and the Arakan Yoma mountains, and of the broken See also:country formed by a portion of their western spurs and valleys. The forests See also:form a most important feature of Akyab district and contain a valuable See also:supply of See also:timber of many kinds. The central See also:part of the district consists of three fertile valleys, watered by the Myu, Koladaing and Lemyu These rivers approach each other at their mouths, and form a vast network of tidal channels; creeks and islands. Their alluvial valleys yield inexhaustible supplies of rice, which the abundant See also:water See also:carriage brings down to the port of Akyab at a very cheap See also:rate.

The four chief towns are Khumgchu in the extreme north-See also:

east of the district; Koladaing in the centre; Arakan, farther down the rivers; and Akyab on the coast, where their mouths converge. This district passed into the hands of the British, together with the See also:rest of Arakan division, at _ the See also:close of the first Burmese See also:war of 1825-1826. Akyab was the See also:metropolitan See also:province of the native See also:kingdom of Arakan, and the See also:history of that country centres in it. In 1871 the frontier or See also:hill tracts of the district were placed under a See also:special See also:administration, with a view to the better government of the See also:wild tribes which inhabit them. (J. G.

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