[1] Yegyi Township is located in the Irrawaddy Delta spanning to the peaks of the southern Arakan Mountains, which forms its northwestern border with Rakhine State.

The township is divided between two geophysical region, the steep forested mountains in the west and the low-lying delta of the east.

[2] The township also locally cultivates medicinal pants including the ivy gourd and the bark of the thakhut tree.

Beyond state-owned lands, the township also encourages private conservation efforts, including the planting of 250 acres of new hardwood forests in 2019.

68.7% of the Town's non-protected lands are used for agricultural activities, primarily producing rice and various types of legumes.

In late 2024, as the Arakan Army advanced south in the Rakhine offensive of the Myanmar civil war, military junta troops were stationed in the forest reserves to the township's west basing them out of small mountainside villages like Chaw Pyar and Thar Baung.