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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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.
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Yangon City Hall
info Centrally located in downtown Yangon. The Yangon City Hall (ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ခန်းမ) building is considered to be a fine example of Myanmar architecture.
info Centrally located in downtown Yangon. The Yangon City Hall (ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ခန်းမ) building is considered to be a fine example of Myanmar architecture.
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Yangon General Hospital
info The Yangon General Hospital (ရန်ကုန် ပြည်သူ့ ဆေးရုံကြီ) was first established in 1899 with a capacity of 342 beds as Rangoon General Hospital.
info The Yangon General Hospital (ရန်ကုန် ပြည်သူ့ ဆေးရုံကြီ) was first established in 1899 with a capacity of 342 beds as Rangoon General Hospital.
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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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Yangon International Airport
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Secretariat Building or Ministers' Building
info The Ministers' Building (the Ministers' Office); formerly The Secretariat or Secretariat Building (ဝန်ကြီးများရုံး) occupies an entire city block, bounded by Anawrahta Road to the north, Theinbyu Road to the east, Maha Bandoola Road to the south and Bo Aung Kyaw Street to the west in downtown Yangon.
info The Ministers' Building (the Ministers' Office); formerly The Secretariat or Secretariat Building (ဝန်ကြီးများရုံး) occupies an entire city block, bounded by Anawrahta Road to the north, Theinbyu Road to the east, Maha Bandoola Road to the south and Bo Aung Kyaw Street to the west in downtown Yangon.
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Yangon Drug Elimination Museum
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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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Yangon Chinatown
The Chinatown (တရုတ်တန်း) of Yangon lies at the west of the Sule Pagoda which is located in the centre of downtown Yangon.
The Chinatown (တရုတ်တန်း) of Yangon lies at the west of the Sule Pagoda which is located in the centre of downtown Yangon.
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Entertainment in Yangon
Television Stations
Television Stations
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Zoological Garden
info Yangon Zoological Gardens (ရန်ကုန်တိရိစ္ဆာန်ဥယျာဉ်), a recreation center, is located in the heart of Yangon.
info Yangon Zoological Gardens (ရန်ကုန်တိရိစ္ဆာန်ဥယျာဉ်), a recreation center, is located in the heart of Yangon.
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Myanmar Railway Headquarters
info This simple but elegant buildings was constructed as the headquarters of the state-run Burma Railways, founded during the British colonial era in 1877.
info This simple but elegant buildings was constructed as the headquarters of the state-run Burma Railways, founded during the British colonial era in 1877.
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Ah Lain Nga Sint Temple & Maha Say Wingaba
info Ah Lain Nga Sint Temple or Maha Say Wingaba was Venerable Sayadaw’s (Monk) monastery where occultism was practised during his life time.
info Ah Lain Nga Sint Temple or Maha Say Wingaba was Venerable Sayadaw’s (Monk) monastery where occultism was practised during his life time.
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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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Allied War Memorial
info The Allied War Memorial Cemetery (also known as Taukkyan War Cemetry or Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetry (ထောက်ကြံ့ စစ်သင်္ချိုင်း) ) is located at Htauk Kyant, Mingaladon Township, 32km from Yangon, on the way to Bago. It was built in 1951 and it is a memorial cemetery of the Allied soldiers who died in the Myanmar Campaign during World War II.
info The Allied War Memorial Cemetery (also known as Taukkyan War Cemetry or Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetry (ထောက်ကြံ့ စစ်သင်္ချိုင်း) ) is located at Htauk Kyant, Mingaladon Township, 32km from Yangon, on the way to Bago. It was built in 1951 and it is a memorial cemetery of the Allied soldiers who died in the Myanmar Campaign during World War II.
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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.
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Hlawga Park
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info Hlawga National Park (လှော်ကားအမျိုးသားဥယျာဉ်) is a national park located in Mingaladon Township, Yangon, Myanmar, 22 miles north of Yangon.
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info Hlawga National Park (လှော်ကားအမျိုးသားဥယျာဉ်) is a national park located in Mingaladon Township, Yangon, Myanmar, 22 miles north of 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.
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Sule Pagoda
info The Sule Pagoda (ဆူးလေဘုရား) is a well-known landmark, located at the heart of Yangon, in downtown.
info The Sule Pagoda (ဆူးလေဘုရား) is a well-known landmark, located at the heart of Yangon, in downtown.
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High Court Building
info Formerly known as the Parliament for Justice, and also known as the Yangon Region Court (ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးတရားလွှတ်တော်), this building was constructed in 1905 and completed in 1911, before World War I.
info Formerly known as the Parliament for Justice, and also known as the Yangon Region Court (ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးတရားလွှတ်တော်), this building was constructed in 1905 and completed in 1911, before World War I.
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Mahasi Meditation Center
info Buddha Sasana Nuggaha Organization was founded in 1947 in Myanmar with the objective of propagating the Buddha Sasana through scripture learning and the practice of Vipassana meditation.
info Buddha Sasana Nuggaha Organization was founded in 1947 in Myanmar with the objective of propagating the Buddha Sasana through scripture learning and the practice of Vipassana meditation.
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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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Yangon Customs House
info The Customs House (အကောက်ခွန်ဦးစီးဌာန) is located along the Strand Road where most colonial buildings stand today as colonial heritage sites.
info The Customs House (အကောက်ခွန်ဦးစီးဌာန) is located along the Strand Road where most colonial buildings stand today as colonial heritage sites.
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Swe Taw Myat Pagoda
info The Sacred Replica Tooth Relic was enshrined in the Swe Taw Myat Pagoda (စွယ်တော်မြတ်စေတီတော်) on Dhammapala Hillock in Mayangone Township, Yangon.
info The Sacred Replica Tooth Relic was enshrined in the Swe Taw Myat Pagoda (စွယ်တော်မြတ်စေတီတော်) on Dhammapala Hillock in Mayangone Township, Yangon.
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The story of Shin Mwaynun and Min Nandar
Once upon a time there was a kingdom called Syriam on the site of present-day Thanlyin, just across the river from Yangon. The queen of this kingdom died while she was pregnant and her baby girl was delivered just before the queen’s funeral pyre was lit at the cemetery on the bank of the river.
Once upon a time there was a kingdom called Syriam on the site of present-day Thanlyin, just across the river from Yangon. The queen of this kingdom died while she was pregnant and her baby girl was delivered just before the queen’s funeral pyre was lit at the cemetery on the bank of the river.
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The Tejoomal Building
This delightful building was once the magical setting of the so-called Old Curiosity Shop of the East, an emporium of oriental curios stocked with silverware, silks, carpets, carvings, and exotic souvenirs from across Asia.
This delightful building was once the magical setting of the so-called Old Curiosity Shop of the East, an emporium of oriental curios stocked with silverware, silks, carpets, carvings, and exotic souvenirs from across Asia.
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Maha Pasana Cave
info Maha Pasana Cave (မဟာပါသာဏလှိုင်ဂူသိမ်တော်ကြီး) is a huge man-made cave, 455ft (139m) in length, 375ft (114m) wide.
info Maha Pasana Cave (မဟာပါသာဏလှိုင်ဂူသိမ်တော်ကြီး) is a huge man-made cave, 455ft (139m) in length, 375ft (114m) wide.
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