Pyapon
Pyapon is a town and seat of Pyapon District as well as Pyapon Township in the Ayeyarwady Region of Myanmar, along the Pyapon River, a distributary of the Ayeyarwady River.
- Type: Town with 65,600 residents
- Description: city in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Hpyar-pon”, “Pyabôn”, and “Pyapun”
Pyapon
- Categories: city, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Pyapon Township, Pyapon District, Ayeyarwady, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.28909° or 16° 17′ 21″ north
Longitude
95.68007° or 95° 40′ 48″ east
Population
65,600
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
Open location code
7M8Q7MQJ+J2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Pyapon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيابون”
- Asturian: “Pyapon”
- Bulgarian: “Пяпон”
- Burmese: “ဖျာပုံမြို့”
- Catalan: “Pyapon”
- Cebuano: “Pyapon”
- Chinese: “壁磅”
- Chinese: “皮亞朋”
- Dutch: “Pyapon”
- French: “Pyapon”
- Japanese: “ピャーポン”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻဖျာပုံ”
- Polish: “Pyapon”
- Portuguese: “Pyapon”
- Russian: “Пхьяпоун”
- Russian: “Пьяпон”
- Shan: “ၽျႃႇပူင်ႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၽျႃႇပူင်ႇ”
- Swedish: “Pyapon”
- Ukrainian: “П`япоун”
- Ukrainian: “Пх’япоун”
- Urdu: “پیابون”
- Yue Chinese: “豎榜”
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