[2] Tun Myint Oo, the Parliamentary Democracy Party candidate for Kyonpyaw Township for the 2015 elections was arrested in 2018 with a grenade and swords after showing nationalist sympathies working with Arakan groups and with U Wirathu[3] Kyonpyaw Township is a flat low-lying delta area with several streams running through it.

Besides Kyonpyaw, the town of Ahtaung is the next largest, but significantly smaller, center of population.

Both the Ahtaung and the Daka meander significantly in the town and lead to elongated rice cultivation land use patterns.

Prior to the construction of the Yangon-Pathein Highway, the Daka river was the main way to access the town from Yangon.

Kyonpyaw Township is located in a hot tropical zone with a heavy monsoon presence.

[7] Mahn Win Maung, 3rd president of Myanmar (1957–1962) was born in Hlezeit, Kyonpyaw Township in 1916.