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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Mel Lamu Pagoda
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Mel Lamu Pagoda
info Mel Lamu (မယ်လမု) means Maid of the Mangrove.
info Mel Lamu (မယ်လမု) means Maid of the Mangrove.
Kyauktawgyi Pagoda
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Kyauktawgyi Pagoda
info Kyauktawgyi Pagoda (ကျောက်တော်ကြီးဘုရား) houses one of the biggest marble Buddha Images in Myanmar with a height of 37ft (11m), a width of 24ft (7m) and a weight of over 600 tonnes.
info Kyauktawgyi Pagoda (ကျောက်တော်ကြီးဘုရား) houses one of the biggest marble Buddha Images in Myanmar with a height of 37ft (11m), a width of 24ft (7m) and a weight of over 600 tonnes.
Shwe Dagon Pagoda
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Shwe Dagon Pagoda
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info In the capital city of Yangon, you will can see the magnificent fabulous Shwedagon Pagoda (ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား) from almost anywhere.
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info In the capital city of Yangon, you will can see the magnificent fabulous Shwedagon Pagoda (ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား) from almost anywhere.
Mahawizaya Pagoda
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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.
Entertainment in Yangon
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Entertainment in Yangon
Television Stations
Television Stations
Yangon International Airport
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Yangon International Airport
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Shopping in Yangon
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Shopping in Yangon
The main tourist destination in Yangon is the Bogyoke Market, where most of the Myanmmar made souvenirs are available.
The main tourist destination in Yangon is the Bogyoke Market, where most of the Myanmmar made souvenirs are available.
Chauk Htat Gyi Buddha Image
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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.
Food in Yangon
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Food in Yangon
There are a variety of food availabel in Yangon, since Yangon is populated with many different races of people such as Myanmars, Chinese, Indians and other ethnic groups.
There are a variety of food availabel in Yangon, since Yangon is populated with many different races of people such as Myanmars, Chinese, Indians and other ethnic groups.
Kabar Aye Pagoda (or) the World Peace Pagoda
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Kabar Aye Pagoda (or) the World Peace Pagoda
info Unlike other pagodas found all over the country, the Kabar Aye Pagoda (ကမ္ဘာအေးစေတီ) (also known as Thiri Mingalar Kabar Aye Zedidaw (သီရိမင်္ဂလာကမ္ဘာအေးစေတီတော်)) was built in 1952 by U Nu in preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Council that he held from 1954-1956.
info Unlike other pagodas found all over the country, the Kabar Aye Pagoda (ကမ္ဘာအေးစေတီ) (also known as Thiri Mingalar Kabar Aye Zedidaw (သီရိမင်္ဂလာကမ္ဘာအေးစေတီတော်)) was built in 1952 by U Nu in preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Council that he held from 1954-1956.
History of Yangon
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History of Yangon The history of Yangon is intertwined with the history of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
Botahtaung Pagoda
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Botahtaung Pagoda
info The Botahtaung Pagoda (ဗိုလ်တထောင်ဘုရား) is located on the Botahtaung Paya Road.
info The Botahtaung Pagoda (ဗိုလ်တထောင်ဘုရား) is located on the Botahtaung Paya Road.
Hotels in Yangon
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Hotels in Yangon
Accommodation in Myanmar is easy and comfortable. There are luxury 5 star hotels to cheap motels.
Accommodation in Myanmar is easy and comfortable. There are luxury 5 star hotels to cheap motels.
Karaweik Hall
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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.
Important Telephone Numbers (Yangon)
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Important Telephone Numbers (Yangon)
Telephone Area Code : 01
Telephone Area Code : 01
Kandawgyi Garden and Kandawgyi Lake
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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.
Inya Lake
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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.
Gems Museum
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- Last Updated: 16 November 2018
Gems Museum
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info The Myanma Gems Museum and Gems Mart (မြန်မာ့ ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာ ပြခန်းနှင့် အရောင်းခန်းမ) is a four-storey building is situated at No.66, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangon Township and very close to the Kaba Aye Pagoda.
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info The Myanma Gems Museum and Gems Mart (မြန်မာ့ ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာ ပြခန်းနှင့် အရောင်းခန်းမ) is a four-storey building is situated at No.66, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangon Township and very close to the Kaba Aye Pagoda.
Communication in Yangon
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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.
National Museum
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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)



