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Yangon, [a] formerly romanized as Rangoon, [4] [5] is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar.Yangon was the capital 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 in north central Myanmar. [6]
The capitals of states and regions in Myanmar are bolded. In Myanmar, the definition of a city is ambiguous with the Burmese term မြို့ ('myo') being translated as any urban area. The General Administration Department only explicitly defines the three cities of Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw. [2] An enlargeable map of Myanmar.
The city is divided into 10 districts. [1] Yangon Region was divided into 4 districts, which overlap with the city's jurisdiction, [2] this changed in 2022, now the region has 14 districts. The current mayor of Yangon is U Bo Htay , [3] [4] an economist and a retired professor at the Yangon Institute of Economics. Each township is administered ...
Yangon Region is the most developed region in the country. According to the government's official statistics for FY 2010–2011, the size of the economy of Yangon Region was 8.93 trillion kyat, or 23% of the national GDP. [17] Greater Yangon is Lower Myanmar's main trading hub for all kinds of merchandise – from basic food stuffs to used cars.
Administrative divisions of Myanmar; A clickable map of Burma/Myanmar exhibiting its first-level administrative divisions. Category: Unitary state: Location: Republic of the Union of Myanmar: Number: 7 regions 7 states 1 union territory 1 self-administered division 5 self-administered zones (as of 2024) Populations: 286,627 (Kayah State ...
Myanmar (Burma) map of Köppen climate classification Myanmar (also known as Burma) is the northwesternmost country of mainland Southeast Asia located on the Indochinese peninsula . With an area of 261,228 sq mi (676,578 km 2 ), it is the second largest country in Southeast Asia and the largest on mainland Southeast Asia. [ 2 ]
Here is a list of townships of Myanmar by region/state and district: Central Myanmar Magway Region ... 1 - part of South Yangon City. 2 - part of North Yangon City ...
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million.