Pakokku
Pakokku is the largest city in the Magway Region of Myanmar. It is situated about 30 km northeast of Bagan on the Irrawaddy River. It is the administration seat of Pakokku Township, Pakokku District and Gangaw District.
- Type: Town with 127,000 residents
- Description: town in Magway Region, Myanmar
- Also known as: “Pagukku”, “Pakkoku”, and “Pakokku township”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thiho Shin Pagoda.
Thiho Shin Pagoda
Buddhist temple
Thihoshin Pagoda is a famous Buddhist pagoda in Pakokku, Magway Region, Myanmar. The pagoda was initiated and offered by King Vijayabahu I, king of Sri Lanka, who reigned until 1110.
Pakokku
- Categories: township of Myanmar, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Pakokku Township, Pakokku District, Magway, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.3343° or 21° 20′ 4″ north
Longitude
95.0944° or 95° 5′ 40″ east
Population
127,000
Elevation
230 feet (70 metres)
IATA airport code
PKK
United Nations Location Code
MM PKK
Open location code
7MHQ83MV+PQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Pakokku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باكوكو”
- Bengali: “পাকক্কু”
- Bulgarian: “Пакоку”
- Burmese: “ပခုက္ကူ”
- Burmese: “ပခုက္ကူမြို့”
- Catalan: “Pakokku”
- Cebuano: “Pakokku”
- Chinese: “木各具”
- Dutch: “Pakokku”
- French: “Pakokku”
- German: “Pakokku”
- Italian: “Pakokku”
- Japanese: “パコック”
- Japanese: “パコックー”
- Korean: “빠쿡구”
- Korean: “파코쿠”
- Lithuanian: “Pakoku”
- Malayalam: “പക്കോക്കു”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pakokku”
- Norwegian: “Pakokku”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပခုက္ကူ”
- Polish: “Pakokku”
- Russian: “Пакокку”
- Russian: “Пакхоуку”
- Shan: “ပၶူၵ်ႉၵူႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပၶူၵ်ႉၵူႇ”
- Spanish: “Pakokku”
- Swedish: “Pakokku”
- Thai: “ปะโคะกู”
- Urdu: “پاکوکو”
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