Yangon
(formerly Rangoon)
Age: 2500 years
Area: 576 km²
Population: 4,082,000
Location: Latitude: 16°48' N, 96°9' E
Temperature: Min 16 'C - Max 34 'C
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Thanlyin
info Thanlyin (သန်လျင်မြို့) was formerly known as Syriam. Myanmar usually pronounce as "Tanyin". It is a city in Yangon Division in Myanmar. It is located on the bank of Yangon River, and is a major port.
info Thanlyin (သန်လျင်မြို့) was formerly known as Syriam. Myanmar usually pronounce as "Tanyin". It is a city in Yangon Division in Myanmar. It is located on the bank of Yangon River, and is a major port.
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St. Mary’s Cathedral
info St. Mary’s Cathedral (စိန့်မယ်ရီဘုရားကျောင်း) is situated on a 15 acres of land on Bo Aung Kyaw Street in Botahtaung Township, Yangon.
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Getting around in Yangon
Public Transport in Yangon
Public Transport in Yangon
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Kandawgyi Garden and Kandawgyi Lake
info Kandawgyi Garden or Kandawgyi Nature Park (ကန်တော်ကြီး) is a popular recreation centre of the capital of Yangon.
info Kandawgyi Garden or Kandawgyi Nature Park (ကန်တော်ကြီး) is a popular recreation centre of the capital of Yangon.
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Strand Hotel
info The Strand Hotel (ကမ်းနားလမ်း ဟိုတယ်) is a Victorian-style hotel located in Yangon.
info The Strand Hotel (ကမ်းနားလမ်း ဟိုတယ်) is a Victorian-style hotel located in Yangon.
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Central Post Office
info This building was constructed in 1908 as the headquarters of one of colonial Burma's major rice traders, Bulloch Brothers & Co., a Scottish firm headquartered in Glasgow.
info This building was constructed in 1908 as the headquarters of one of colonial Burma's major rice traders, Bulloch Brothers & Co., a Scottish firm headquartered in Glasgow.
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Communication in Yangon
Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is a must-go destination of Asia today. Yangon. the commercial capital. is the main gateway to Myanmar. Evergreen and cool with lush tropical trees. shady parks and beautiful lakes. Yangon has earned the name of "The Garden City of the East". Yangon was founded by King Alaungpaya on the site of a small settlement called Dagon when he conquered Lower Myanmar in AD 1755.
Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is a must-go destination of Asia today. Yangon. the commercial capital. is the main gateway to Myanmar. Evergreen and cool with lush tropical trees. shady parks and beautiful lakes. Yangon has earned the name of "The Garden City of the East". Yangon was founded by King Alaungpaya on the site of a small settlement called Dagon when he conquered Lower Myanmar in AD 1755.
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Ngar Htat Gyi Buddha Image
info Ngar Htat Gyi Pagoda (ငါးထပ်ကြီးဘုရားကြီး), also known as the "five-storey Buddha" is located across the Chauk Htat Gyi Buddha Image.
info Ngar Htat Gyi Pagoda (ငါးထပ်ကြီးဘုရားကြီး), also known as the "five-storey Buddha" is located across the Chauk Htat Gyi Buddha Image.
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Mahawizaya Pagoda
info The Maha Wizaya Pagoda (မဟာဝိဇယစေတီ) was built on the Dhammarakkhita (Guardian of the Law) Hill which faces the famous Shwedagon Pagoda, in 1980 to commemorate the first successful convening of all sects of the Buddhist monastic order, under one supervisory body.
info The Maha Wizaya Pagoda (မဟာဝိဇယစေတီ) was built on the Dhammarakkhita (Guardian of the Law) Hill which faces the famous Shwedagon Pagoda, in 1980 to commemorate the first successful convening of all sects of the Buddhist monastic order, under one supervisory body.
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Karaweik Hall
info The floating Karaweik (ကရဝိက်) Restaurant on Kandawgyi Lake (ကန်တော်ကြီးကန်) is one of the landmarks of Yangon.
info The floating Karaweik (ကရဝိက်) Restaurant on Kandawgyi Lake (ကန်တော်ကြီးကန်) is one of the landmarks of Yangon.
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Entertainment in Yangon
Television Stations
Television Stations
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History of Yangon The history of Yangon is intertwined with the history of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Kyauktan
Kyaik Hmaw Wun Pagoda (or also known as Kyauktan Yele Pagoda)
Kyaik Hmaw Wun Pagoda (or also known as Kyauktan Yele Pagoda)
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Zafar Shah Dargah (Tomb)
info The Tomb is situated near the southern stairway of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
info The Tomb is situated near the southern stairway of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
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A man molding pot in a matter of seconds before the pots are taken to the kilns for baking.
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Chauk Htat Gyi Buddha Image
info One of Myanmar’s more revered reclining Buddhas. It is housed in a large metal-roofed shed and is located at a short distance, north east of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
info One of Myanmar’s more revered reclining Buddhas. It is housed in a large metal-roofed shed and is located at a short distance, north east of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Police Commissioner's Building
info The architect of this building, Thomas Oliphant Foster worked with Edwin Lutyens on his designs for New Delhi. The echo of the monumentalism Lutyens strove for in New Delhi is evident here.
info The architect of this building, Thomas Oliphant Foster worked with Edwin Lutyens on his designs for New Delhi. The echo of the monumentalism Lutyens strove for in New Delhi is evident here.
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Inland Water Transport Building
info Inland Water Transport (IWT) (ပြည်တွင်းရေကြောင်းပို့ဆောင်ရေး) manages passenger cruises and cargo ships along the rivers in Myanmar.
info Inland Water Transport (IWT) (ပြည်တွင်းရေကြောင်းပို့ဆောင်ရေး) manages passenger cruises and cargo ships along the rivers in Myanmar.
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Myanmar Amber Museum
Photo Credit - www.myanmarambermuseum.org
Photo Credit - www.myanmarambermuseum.org
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Myanmar Port Authority Building
info The uniquely preserved building of Myanmar Port Authority (မြန်မာ့ဆိပ်ကမ်းအာဏာပိုင်ရုံး) was built in 1920.
info The uniquely preserved building of Myanmar Port Authority (မြန်မာ့ဆိပ်ကမ်းအာဏာပိုင်ရုံး) was built in 1920.
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Koe Htat Gyi Pagoda
info Koe Htat Gyi Pagoda (ကိုးထပ်ကြီးဘုရား) meaning the Nine Storey Buddha Image, is situated on the Bargayar Road, Sanchaung Township, Yangon.
info Koe Htat Gyi Pagoda (ကိုးထပ်ကြီးဘုရား) meaning the Nine Storey Buddha Image, is situated on the Bargayar Road, Sanchaung Township, Yangon.
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Hnin Si Gone Home for Aged
info Hnin Si Gone Home for Aged (နှင်းဆီကုန်းဘိုးဘွားရိပ်သာကြီး) is located on Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Bahan Township, Yangon.
info Hnin Si Gone Home for Aged (နှင်းဆီကုန်းဘိုးဘွားရိပ်သာကြီး) is located on Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Bahan Township, Yangon.
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Nagar Glass Factory
Photo Credit - Tanja Van De Linde
Photo Credit - Tanja Van De Linde
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National Museum
The Bronze statue of King Bayinnaung (The founder of the First Kingdom of Myanmar, in front of the National Museum)
The Bronze statue of King Bayinnaung (The founder of the First Kingdom of Myanmar, in front of the National Museum)
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National Health Museum
info The National Health Museum is quite a small museum, educating children and the general public for health knowledge.
info The National Health Museum is quite a small museum, educating children and the general public for health knowledge.
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Kyaikkasan Pagoda
info Kyaikkasan Pagoda (ကျိုက္ကစံ ဆံတော်ရှင်စေတီတော်) is located in Thingangyun Township, Yangon.
info Kyaikkasan Pagoda (ကျိုက္ကစံ ဆံတော်ရှင်စေတီတော်) is located in Thingangyun Township, Yangon.
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Yangon's Heritage Buildings
Yangon's cityscape is utterly unique. Much of its colonial-era architecture remains standing and the city boasts one of Asia's most impressive collections of late nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century buildings, both religious and secular.
Yangon's cityscape is utterly unique. Much of its colonial-era architecture remains standing and the city boasts one of Asia's most impressive collections of late nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century buildings, both religious and secular.
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U Do Golf Club
info U Do Golf Club is located in Taikkyi Township, Yangon Region. Just about 2-hour drive from Yangon, it is an ideal place for eating out, fishing, boating and bird watching.
info U Do Golf Club is located in Taikkyi Township, Yangon Region. Just about 2-hour drive from Yangon, it is an ideal place for eating out, fishing, boating and bird watching.
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Inya Lake
info Inya Lake (အင်းယားကန်) is the largest lake in Yangon, Myanmar.
info Inya Lake (အင်းယားကန်) is the largest lake in Yangon, Myanmar.
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National Races Village
info National Races Village (ပြည်ထောင်စုတိုင်းရင်းသားကျေးရွာ) was constructed by Ministry of Border Affairs, situated in Tharketa Township, on the left side of Yangon-Thanlyin Bridge.
info National Races Village (ပြည်ထောင်စုတိုင်းရင်းသားကျေးရွာ) was constructed by Ministry of Border Affairs, situated in Tharketa Township, on the left side of Yangon-Thanlyin Bridge.
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Shwe San Daw Pagoda
info Shwe San Daw Pagoda (ရွှေဆံတော်ဘုရား) lies in Twantay, a small town nearby Yangon.
info Shwe San Daw Pagoda (ရွှေဆံတော်ဘုရား) lies in Twantay, a small town nearby Yangon.
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