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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 ]
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 ...
The following is a list of cities and largest towns in Myanmar with populations above 5,000, according to UNFPA Myanmar. [1] 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 ...
Five "highways" link Yangon to the rest of the country. [19] (To be sure, the definition of highway is loosely used. Most highways are no more than two lane roads.) Yangon International Airport is the main international gateway of the country. Yangon Central Railway Station is a major hub of the 5,068-kilometre (3,149 mi) Myanmar Railways system.
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] The kite-shaped country stretches from 10'N to 20'N for 1,275 miles (2,050 km) with a long tail running along the western coast of the Malay Peninsula. [3] Myanmar lies along the Indian and Eurasian ...
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.
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Yangon (Rangoon) 20 December 1852 – 31 January 1862 9 years, 42 days [note 16] Yangon: 31 January 1862 – 7 March 1942 80 years, 35 days [note 17] Yangon: 3 May 1945 – 4 January 1948 2 years, 246 days Japanese Burma: Yangon: 7 March 1942 – 3 May 1945 3 years, 57 days Myanmar: Yangon: 4 January 1948 – 6 November 2005 57 years, 306 days