HENZADA, a town and district of Lower Burma, formerly in the Pegu, but now in the Irrawaddy division. Area, 2,872 sq.m. Pop. (1931) 613, 280. The district lies to the west of the Ir rawaddy and stretches to the crest of the Arakan Yomas which forms the boundary between Henzada and the Sandoway district of Arakan. The district thus comprises a tract of hilly, forested country on the west and a portion of the plain of the Irrawaddy on the east. The town of Henzada itself is usually regarded as lying at the southern end of the Irrawaddy valley proper and at the head of the delta. The low-lying eastern portions of the dis trict are protected from inundation by immense embankments, so that almost the whole is suitable for rice cultivation. Tobacco is also an important crop. The hills in the western part are forested. The chief town of the district is Henzada, which had in 193i a population of 28,542. Other towns in the district are Myan-aung, with a population of 9,072; and Kyangin with a population of 6,78o according to the 1931 census. The river towns are served by the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and a branch of the Burma Railway runs from Kyangin to Henzada and from Henzada to Bassein.
The district was once a portion of the Talaing kingdom of Pegu, afterwards annexed to the Burmese empire in 1753, and has no history of its own.