Shwedagon Pagoda
The Shwedagon Pagoda, officially named Shwedagon Zedi Daw, and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, Kyaik Dagon is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar.
- Type: Pagoda
- Description: religious building in Yangon, Myanmar
- Also known as: “Pagoda di Shwedagon”, “Schwe-Dagon”, “Schwedagon”, “Schwedagon Pagoda”, “Schwedagon Pagode”, “Shwe dagon”, “Shwe Dagon”, “Shwe-Dagon”, “Shwedagon Paya”, “Shwedagon Zedi Daw”, “Shwedagon-Pagode”, “Shwedagon-pagoden”, “Shwedagonpagoden”, “Szwe Dagon”, “Zlatá pagoda”, “Шві-Дагон”, “ฉ่วยตะโกง”, “ฉ่วยตะโก้ง”, “ชเวดากอง”, “ชเวตะกอง”, “ชเวตะโก้ง”, “ชเวตากอง”, “ชะเวดากอง”, “พระเจดีย์เกศธาตุ”, “พระเจดีย์ชเวดากอง”, “พระธาตุชะเวดากอง”, “พระมหาธาตุชเวดากอง”, “ၽြႃးသူၺ်ႇတၵူင်ႇ”, “ရွှေတိဂုံ”, “ရွှေတိဂုံ စေတီတော်”, “ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီ”, “ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား”, “သူၺ်ႇတၵူင်ႇ”, “သူၺ်ႇတၷူင်ႇ”, “シェンダゴンパゴダ”, “大金塔”, and “雪德宮大金塔”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: People’s Park and Yangon Zoological Gardens.
People’s Park
Park
Yangon Zoological Gardens
Zoo
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bahan Township and Dagon Township.
Shwedagon Pagoda
- Categories: Buddhist temple, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bago Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.79879° or 16° 47′ 56″ north
Longitude
96.14951° or 96° 8′ 58″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
295 feet (90 metres)
Open location code
7M8RQ4XX+GR
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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: “ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်”
- Catalan: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Catalan: “Shwedagon Pagoda”
- Chinese: “仰光大金寺”
- Czech: “Šweitigoumská pagoda”
- Dutch: “Schwedagonpagode”
- Finnish: “Shwedagonin pagodi”
- French: “pagode Shwedagon”
- French: “Pagode Shwedagon”
- German: “Shwedagon”
- Hebrew: “שוודאגון פאגודה”
- Hindi: “श्वेडागोन पगोडा”
- Hungarian: “Svedagon pagoda”
- Indonesian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Indonesian: “Shwedagon”
- Italian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- 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”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဆွေတိဂုံ စေꩻတီႏ”
- Pali: “त्रिकुम्बसुवण्णचेति”
- Persian: “پاگودا شوداگون”
- Polish: “Pagoda Shwe Dagon”
- Polish: “Szwedagon”
- Portuguese: “Pagode Shwedagon”
- Romanian: “Pagoda Shwe Dagon”
- Romanian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Russian: “Пагода Шведагон”
- Serbian: “Švedagon”
- Serbian: “Шведагон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shwedagon”
- Shan: “ၵွင်းမူးသူၺ်ႇတၵူင်ႇ”
- Slovenian: “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Slovenian: “Pagoda Švedagon”
- Spanish: “Shwedagon”
- Swedish: “Shwedagon”
- Tagalog: “Pagodang Shwedagon”
- Tamil: “சவேடகன் அடுக்குத் தூபி”
- Telugu: “ష్వెడగన్ పగోడా”
- Thai: “เจดีย์ชเวดากอง”
- Thai: “พระมหาธาตุเจดีย์ชเวดากอง”
- Turkish: “Shwedagon Pagoda”
- Ukrainian: “Пагода Шведагон”
- Ukrainian: “Пагода Швідагон”
- Vietnamese: “Chùa Shwedagon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pagoda Shwedagon”
- Western Panjabi: “شویڈاگون پگوڈا”
- Wu Chinese: “仰光大金寺”
- Yue Chinese: “大金寺”
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