Pekon
Pekon is a town in far southern Shan State, eastern Myanmar on the shores of the Mobye Reservoir near the border with Kayah State. It is the seat of the Pekon Township in the Kalaw District. It is divided into 7 wards.
- Type: Town with 15,300 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Mobye”, “Pecong”, “Pekhon”, “Pékon”, “Pèkon”, “Pekong”, and “Phekhon”
Pekon
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Pekon Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
19.86871° or 19° 52′ 7″ north
Longitude
97.0053° or 97° 0′ 19″ east
Population
15,300
Elevation
2,943 feet (897 metres)
Open location code
7MFVV294+F4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Shan—“Pekon” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “ဖယ်ခုံ”
- Burmese: “ဖယ်ခုံမြို့”
- Chinese: “佩孔”
- Chinese: “贝贡”
- Dutch: “Pekon”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻဖုဲင်ခွန်ႏ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၽႆၢႇၶုၼ်ႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၽၢႆၶုၼ်ႇ”
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