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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Independence Monument
info The Independence Monument (လွတ်လပ်ရေးကျောက်တိုင်) is located in the Maha Bandula Park facing the Yangon City Hall, and surrounded by two concentric circles of lion statues.
info The Independence Monument (လွတ်လပ်ရေးကျောက်တိုင်) is located in the Maha Bandula Park facing the Yangon City Hall, and surrounded by two concentric circles of lion statues.
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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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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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History of Yangon The history of Yangon is intertwined with the history of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Important Telephone Numbers (Yangon)
Telephone Area Code : 01
Telephone Area Code : 01
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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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Nagar Glass Factory
Photo Credit - Tanja Van De Linde
Photo Credit - Tanja Van De Linde
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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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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.
Photo Credit - www.pinterest.com
info In the capital city of Yangon, you will can see the magnificent fabulous Shwedagon Pagoda (ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား) from almost anywhere.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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