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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Shin Khant Maung, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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 Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.3343° or 21° 20′ 4″ northLongitude
95.0944° or 95° 5′ 40″ eastPopulation
127,000Elevation
230 feet (70 metres)IATA airport code
PKKUnited Nations Location Code
MM PKKOpen location code
7MHQ83MV+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 26576197OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1302439Wikidata ID
Q1360275
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Thai—“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”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pakokku”. Photo: Shin Khant Maung, CC BY-SA 4.0.