Shwedagon Pagoda
The Shwedagon Pagoda, officially named Shwedagon Zedi Daw, and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Yangon Zoological Gardens and National Museum.
Yangon Zoological Gardens
Zoo
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The Yangon Zoo is the oldest and the second largest zoo in Myanmar. Located immediately north of downtown Yangon near Kandawgyi Lake, the 70-acre recreational park also includes a museum of natural history, an aquarium and an amusement park. Yangon Zoological Gardens is situated 1 mile southeast of Shwedagon Pagoda.
National Museum
Museum
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The National Museum of Myanmar, located in Dagon, Yangon, is the major one of the two national museums for Burmese art, history and culture in Myanmar. National Museum is situated 1 mile southwest of Shwedagon Pagoda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bahan Township and Dagon Township.
Bahan Township
Suburb
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Bahan Township is located in the north central part of Yangon. The township comprises 22 wards, and shares borders with Yankin Township and Mayangon Township in the north, Sanchaung Township and Kamayut Township in the west, Tamwe Township in the east, and Dagon Township and Mingala Taungnyunt Township in the south.
Dagon Township
Suburb
Dagon Township is located immediately north of downtown Yangon. The township comprises five wards, and shares borders with Bahan Township in the north, Ahlon Township in the west, Mingala Taungnyunt Township in the east, and Lanmadaw Township, Latha Township and Pabedan Township in the south.
Yangon
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Yangon, formerly known in English as Rangoon, is the largest city in Myanmar and was the capital of the country until it was replaced by Naypyidaw in 2005.
Shwedagon Pagoda
- Type: Pagoda
- Description: religious building in Yangon, Myanmar
- Categories: Buddhist temple, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bago Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Shwedagon Pagoda” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معبد شويداغون”
- Armenian: “Շվեդագոն պագոդա”
- Asturian: “Shwedagon”
- Azerbaijani: “Qızıl Daqon Paqodası”
- Azerbaijani: “Şvedaqon paqodası”
- Bashkir: “Шведагон пагодаһы”
- Basque: “Shwedagon pagoda”
- Belarusian: “Пагада Шведагон”
- Belarusian: “Швэдагон”
- Bengali: “শ্বেতাগোঁন মহাচৈত্য”
- Bulgarian: “Шведагон”
- Burmese: “ရွှေတိဂုံ စေတီတော်”
- Burmese: “ရွှေတိဂုံ”
- Burmese: “ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီ”
- Burmese: “ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်”
- Burmese: “ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား”
- Catalan: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Catalan: “Shwedagon Pagoda”
- Chinese: “仰光大金寺”
- Chinese: “大金塔”
- Chinese: “大金寺”
- Chinese: “雪德宮大金塔”
- Czech: “Šweitigoumská pagoda”
- Czech: “Zlatá pagoda”
- Dutch: “Schwedagon Pagoda”
- Dutch: “Schwedagon Pagode”
- Dutch: “Schwedagon”
- Dutch: “Schwedagonpagode”
- Dutch: “Shwe Dagon”
- Finnish: “Shwedagon Paya”
- Finnish: “Shwedagon”
- Finnish: “Shwedagonin pagodi”
- French: “pagode Shwedagon”
- French: “Pagode Shwedagon”
- French: “Shwedagon”
- German: “Schwe-Dagon”
- German: “Schwedagon”
- German: “Shwe-Dagon”
- German: “Shwedagon-Pagode”
- German: “Shwedagon”
- Hebrew: “שוודאגון פאגודה”
- Hindi: “श्वेडागोन पगोडा”
- Hungarian: “Svedagon pagoda”
- Indonesian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Indonesian: “Shwedagon”
- Italian: “Pagoda di Shwedagon”
- Italian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Japanese: “シェンダゴンパゴダ”
- Japanese: “シュエダゴン・パゴダ”
- Kazakh: “Дагон”
- Khmer: “វត្ត ស្វេដាហ្គុន”
- Korean: “쉐다곤 파고다”
- Korean: “슈웨다곤 파고다”
- Latvian: “Švedagonas pagoda”
- Malayalam: “ശ്വെദഗൊൺ പഗോഡ”
- Mon: “ဒဂုင်၊ ကျာ်စေတဳ ဍုင်လ္ဂုင်”
- Mon: “ဒဂုၚ်၊ကျာ်”
- Mongolian: “Шведагон суварга”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pagòda de Shwedagon”
- Polish: “Pagoda Shwe Dagon”
- Polish: “Shwedagon”
- Polish: “Szwe Dagon”
- Polish: “Szwedagon”
- Portuguese: “Pagode Shwedagon”
- Romanian: “Pagoda Shwe Dagon”
- Romanian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Russian: “Пагода Шведагон”
- Russian: “Шведагон”
- Serbian: “Švedagon”
- Serbian: “Шведагон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shwedagon”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Švedagon”
- Shan: “ၵွင်းမူးသူၺ်ႇတၵူင်ႇ”
- Shan: “ၽြႃးသူၺ်ႇတၵူင်ႇ”
- Shan: “သူၺ်ႇတၵူင်ႇ”
- Shan: “သူၺ်ႇတၷူင်ႇ”
- Slovenian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Slovenian: “Pagoda Švedagon”
- Spanish: “Shwedagon Paya”
- Spanish: “Shwedagon”
- Swedish: “Shwedagon Zedi Daw”
- Swedish: “Shwedagon-pagoden”
- Swedish: “Shwedagon”
- Swedish: “Shwedagonpagoden”
- Tagalog: “Pagodang Shwedagon”
- Tamil: “சவேடகன் அடுக்குத் தூபி”
- Thai: “Shwe dagon”
- Thai: “Shwedagon pagoda”
- Thai: “Shwedagon”
- Thai: “เจดีย์ชเวดากอง”
- Thai: “ฉ่วยตะโกง”
- Thai: “ฉ่วยตะโก้ง”
- Thai: “ชเวดากอง”
- Thai: “ชเวตะกอง”
- Thai: “ชเวตะโก้ง”
- Thai: “ชเวตากอง”
- Thai: “ชะเวดากอง”
- Thai: “พระเจดีย์เกศธาตุ”
- Thai: “พระเจดีย์ชเวดากอง”
- Thai: “พระธาตุชะเวดากอง”
- Thai: “พระมหาธาตุเจดีย์ชเวดากอง”
- Thai: “พระมหาธาตุชเวดากอง”
- Turkish: “Shwedagon Pagoda”
- Ukrainian: “Пагода Шведагон”
- Ukrainian: “Пагода Швідагон”
- Ukrainian: “Шведагон”
- Ukrainian: “Шві-Дагон”
- Vietnamese: “Chùa Shwedagon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shwedagon Pagoda”
- Western Panjabi: “شویڈاگون پگوڈا”
- Wu Chinese: “仰光大金寺”
- Yue Chinese: “大金寺”
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