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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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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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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Sri Kali Temple
info Sri Kali Temple is one of the most richly decorated Hindu temples with the impressive stone sculptures and carvings of Hindu gods around around its colourful roof.
info Sri Kali Temple is one of the most richly decorated Hindu temples with the impressive stone sculptures and carvings of Hindu gods around around its colourful roof.
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Oh-Bo Pottery Sheds
info The pots are made in huge thatch-roofed sheds. Oh-Bo district is located at the south of Twantay canal, about 15 minutes walk from the dock.
info The pots are made in huge thatch-roofed sheds. Oh-Bo district is located at the south of Twantay canal, about 15 minutes walk from the dock.
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Martyrs' Mausoleum
info The Martyrs' Mausoleum (အာဇာနည်ဗိမာန်) is a memorable place of Myanmar National Leaders.
info The Martyrs' Mausoleum (အာဇာနည်ဗိမာန်) is a memorable place of Myanmar National Leaders.
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People's Park and Square
Water Fountain Garden in People's Park and Square
Water Fountain Garden in People's Park and Square
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Yangon International Airport
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Chan Myae Yeik Thar Meditation Center
info Chanmyae Yeik Thar (ချမ်းမြေ့ရိပ်သာ) functions mainly as a meditation center but it is also a monastery with resident monks who are the teachers of meditation.
info Chanmyae Yeik Thar (ချမ်းမြေ့ရိပ်သာ) functions mainly as a meditation center but it is also a monastery with resident monks who are the teachers of meditation.
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Yangon is a great city, and what I love so much about it is that it’s always full of action, people are extremely friendly, there are many different types of food and street food to try, and it’s just such a vibrant, always entertaining city. Hope you can visit Yangon!
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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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Kheng Hock Keong Chinese Temple
info Kheng Hock Keong Chinese Temple (ခိန့်ဟုတ် ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာဘုရားကျောင်း) is located on the corner of Sinn Oo Dan Street and Strand Road in Latha Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
info Kheng Hock Keong Chinese Temple (ခိန့်ဟုတ် ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာဘုရားကျောင်း) is located on the corner of Sinn Oo Dan Street and Strand Road in Latha Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
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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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Entertainment in Yangon
Television Stations
Television Stations
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Immanuel Baptist Church
info Immanuel Baptist Church (ဧမာနွေလ ဘုရားကျောင်း) is located in the center of Yagon just next to the Maha bandoola Garden near city hall.
info Immanuel Baptist Church (ဧမာနွေလ ဘုရားကျောင်း) is located in the center of Yagon just next to the Maha bandoola Garden near city hall.
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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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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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Important Telephone Numbers (Yangon)
Telephone Area Code : 01
Telephone Area Code : 01
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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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Bogyoke Aung San Museum
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info Bogyoke Aung San (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်း) meaning General Aung San, was the hero who fought for the Independence of Myanmar.
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info Bogyoke Aung San (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်း) meaning General Aung San, was the hero who fought for the Independence of Myanmar.
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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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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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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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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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Former Sofaer's Buildings
info Commissioned by Isaac A. Sofaer, a Baghdadi Jewish trader, Sofaer's Buildings is a testament to the cosmopolitan nature of Yangon society in the early 20th century.
info Commissioned by Isaac A. Sofaer, a Baghdadi Jewish trader, Sofaer's Buildings is a testament to the cosmopolitan nature of Yangon society in the early 20th century.
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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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Thanlyin: Across the river and a world away from Yangon
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Kyaikkalei Pagoda
info The ancient Kyaikkalei Pagoda (ကျိုက္ကလဲ့ စေတီ) stands on the left side of the highway running from Yangon to Bago in Mingaladon Township, Yangon.
info The ancient Kyaikkalei Pagoda (ကျိုက္ကလဲ့ စေတီ) stands on the left side of the highway running from Yangon to Bago in Mingaladon Township, Yangon.
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Rander House
info Rander House is unusual for its simple American Classical style, reminiscent of downtown Chicago.
info Rander House is unusual for its simple American Classical style, reminiscent of downtown Chicago.
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Yangon Drug Elimination Museum
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Bogyoke Aung San Park
info Bogyoke Aung San Park is popularly known as Bogyoke Park (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ပန်းခြံ), which is a small charming park located on the north side of the Kandawgyi Lake (ကန်တော်ကြီး) surrounded by lush green trees.
info Bogyoke Aung San Park is popularly known as Bogyoke Park (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ပန်းခြံ), which is a small charming park located on the north side of the Kandawgyi Lake (ကန်တော်ကြီး) surrounded by lush green trees.
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Dannyin Gone Golf Club
info Dannyin Gone Golf Club (also known as Yangon Golf Club (ရန်ကုန်ဂေါက်ကွင်း) ) in Yangon was founded in 1909.
info Dannyin Gone Golf Club (also known as Yangon Golf Club (ရန်ကုန်ဂေါက်ကွင်း) ) in Yangon was founded in 1909.
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