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Mandalay (/ ˌ m æ n d ə ˈ l eɪ / or / ˈ m æ n d əl eɪ /; Burmese: မန္တလေး; MLCTS: manta.le:) is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon.Located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631 km (392 miles; road distance) north of Yangon, the city has a population of 1,225,553 (2014 census).
The history of Mandalay Region is the same as that of much of Upper Myanmar except that for much of Burmese history, the political power emanated out of royal capitals located in Mandalay Region. The country's present capital, Naypyidaw , and most former royal capitals of the Burmese nation— Bagan , Ava , Amarapura , Mandalay —are all ...
Asia: Region: Southeast Asia ... To its west is the Bay of Bengal and to its south is the Andaman Sea. ... Climate data for Mandalay (1981–2010, extremes 1889 ...
Mandalay International Airport [a] (IATA: MDL, ICAO: VYMD), located 35 km south of Mandalay in Tada-U, is one of three international airports in Myanmar. Completed in 1999, it replaced the old Mandalay Chanmyathazi Airport as the city's main airport and it was the largest and most modern airport in the country until the modernization of Yangon ...
Mandalay Bay is a 43-story luxury resort and casino at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM ...
Mandalay District (Burmese: မန္တလေး ခရိုင်) was a district of the Mandalay Region in central Myanmar. Though the district used to consist of two cities, Mandalay and Amarapura , today, with the urban sprawl of Mandalay capturing Amarapura and Patheingyi , the district and the city of Mandalay are one and the same.
The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated 47 World Heritage Sites in nine countries (also called "State parties") of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Sunset from Mandalay Hill. Once on the terrace of the Sutaungpyei Pagoda, a panoramic view of the Mandalay plain stretches far to the horizon, with the old city walls and moat, the Thudhamma Zayats (rest houses), various stupas around such as the Kuthodaw Pagoda and its 729 satellite stupas each housing a page inscribed in stone the world's largest book (the entire Pali Buddhist Canon ...