Labutta District

{{Short description|District in Ayeyarwaddy Region, Myanmar}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox settlement

| official_name = Labutta District

| native_name = {{lang|my|လပွတ္တာခရိုင်}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Myanmar}}

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Ayeyarwady Region}}

| subdivision_type3 = Capital

| subdivision_name3 = Labutta

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| population_density_km2 = auto

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| timezone1 = MMT

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| image_map = Labutta district in Ayeyarwady region.svg

| map_caption = Labutta District (Red) in Ayeyarwady Region

| coordinates ={{coord|16.2542|N|95.0422|E|source:wikidata|display=title}}

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Labutta District or Latputta District ({{langx|my|လပွတ္တာခရိုင်}}) is a district in Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar. Labutta District was established in 2008 after the region was hit by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. The administrative seat is the town of Labutta (Latputta). The population of the district as of 2016 was 626,558 people.{{cite web |url=https://themimu.info/sites/themimu.info/files/documents/BaselineData_Census_Dataset_SR_District_Township_MIMU_16Jun2016_ENG.xlsx |title=Baseline Census Dataset}}

59% the land area of the district is highly susceptible to flooding, posing significant risks to the cropland and brine ponds that make up the district's primary economic industries. Based on the 2014 Myanmar census, 335,700 people lived in these prone areas of the district.{{cite paper |last1=Seeger |first1=Katharina |last2=Peffeköver |first2=Andreas |last3=Minderhoud |first3=Philip |last4=Vogel |first4=Anissa |last5=Brückner |first5=Helmut |last6=Kraas |first6=Frauke |author7=Nay Win Oo |last8=Brill |first8=Dominik |title=Evaluating flood hazards in data-sparse coastal lowlands: highlighting the Ayeyarwady Delta (Myanmar) |date=11 July 2024 |publisher=IOP Publishing |journal=Environmental Research | doi=10.1088/1748-9326/ad5b07 |issue=19 |language=en}}