Shan State
Taunggyi District
Nyaungshwe Township

Nyaungshwe

Nyaungshwe, is the principal town of in southwestern , Myanmar. The town of Nyaungshwe comprises 8 wards, namely Kantha, Thasi, Nandawun, Myole, Win, Nangpang, Mingala, and Maineli.
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  • Type: Town with 188,000 residents
  • Description: town in the Shan State of Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Nyaung Shwe”, “Yawnghwe”, and “ညောင်ရွှေမြို့”

Nyaungshwe

Latitude
20.6588° or 20° 39′ 32″ north
Longitude
96.9317° or 96° 55′ 54″ east
Population
188,000
Elevation
2,927 feet (892 metres)
Open location code
7MGRMW5J+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 446719583
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1285693
Wiki­data ID
Q652202
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Nyaungshwe” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Nyaung Shwe”
  • Burmese: “ညောင်ရွှေ”
  • Burmese: “ညောင်ရွှေမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Yawnghwe”
  • Chinese: “娘瑞”
  • Chinese: “良瑞”
  • Dutch: “Nyaung Shwe”
  • French: “Nyaung Shwe”
  • French: “Nyaungshwe”
  • French: “Yawnghwe”
  • German: “Nyaung Shwe”
  • Japanese: “ニャウンシェ”
  • Latin: “Yawnghwe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyaung Shwe”
  • Norwegian: “Nyaung Shwe”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻညောင်ႏရွီႏ”
  • Russian: “Ньоншуэ”
  • Russian: “Ньяунг-Шве”
  • Shan: “ယွင်ႁူၺ်ႈ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းယွင်ႁူၺ်ႈ”
  • Spanish: “Nyaung Shwe”
  • Swedish: “Nyaungshwe”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nyaungshwe”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.