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 located in , Myanmar.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Yangon Zoological Gardens and National Museum.

Zoo
The Yangon Zoo is the oldest and the second largest zoo in . Located immediately north of downtown near , the 70-acre recreational park also includes a museum of natural history, an aquarium and an amusement park. is situated 1 mile southeast of Shwedagon Pagoda.

Museum
The of Myanmar, located in , , is the major one of the two national museums for Burmese art, history and culture in . is situated 1 mile southwest of Shwedagon Pagoda.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bahan Township and Dagon Township.

Suburb
is located in the north central part of . The township comprises 22 wards, and shares borders with and in the north, and in the west, in the east, and and in the south.

Suburb
is located immediately north of downtown . The township comprises five wards, and shares borders with in the north, in the west, in the east, and , and in the south.

, formerly known in English as Rangoon, is the largest city in and was the capital of the country until it was replaced by in 2005.

Shwedagon Pagoda

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
Geo­Names ID
1296713
Wiki­data ID
Q464535
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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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