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Shwedagon Pagoda
A gilded 99-meter stupa in Yangon, the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar.
1 km · about 5 min drive
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Yangon
Yangon, Myanmar · Asia
About Yangon
Yangon is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Hledan, 1km from Shwedagon Pagoda.
Yangon is in Myanmar, with about 4.5 million people. The nearest town is Hledan, about 4 km away.
Yangon, also romanized in English as Rangoon, is the capital city of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the capital city of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the military government relocated the administrative functions to the purpose-built capital city of Naypyidaw inRead more
north central Myanmar. With over five million people, Yangon is Myanmar's most populous city and its most important commercial centre.
Yangon boasts the largest number of colonial-era buildings in Southeast Asia, and has a unique colonial-era urban core that is remarkably intact. The colonial-era commercial core is centred around the Sule Pagoda, which is reputed to be over 2,000 years old. The city is also home to the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda – Myanmar's most sacred and famous Buddhist pagoda.
Yangon suffers from profoundly inadequate infrastructure, especially compared to other major cities in Southeast Asia, such as Jakarta, Bangkok or Hanoi. Especially rail transport is lacking. Though many historic residential and commercial buildings have been renovated throughout central Yangon, most satellite towns that ring the city remain chronically impoverished and lack basic infrastructure.
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Within an hour or so of Yangon: Shwedagon Pagoda (1 km).
Where is Yangon?
Yangon is in Yangon, Myanmar, about 4 km from Hledan.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 4,477,638
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Myanmar
- Region
- Yangon
- Timezone
- Asia/Yangon
- Coordinates
- 16.8053, 96.1561
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