Mottama
Mottama is a town in the Thaton District of Mon State, Myanmar. Located on the west bank of the Thanlwin River, on the opposite side of Mawlamyaing, Mottama was the capital of the Martaban Kingdom from 1287 to 1364, and an entrepôt of international repute until the mid-16th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 48,600 residents
- Description: small town in the Thaton district of Mon State, Myanmar, the first capital of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries, and an entrepôt of international repute until the mid-16th century
- Also known as: “Martaban”, “Marteban”, and “Moktama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gaungze Kyun and Southern Myanmar Football Stadium.
Southern Myanmar Football Stadium
Stadium
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Yamanya Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, located in downtown Mawlamyine, Myanmar. Yamanya Stadium also hosts other local and regional football tournaments. Southern Myanmar Football Stadium is situated 2½ miles southeast of Mottama.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mawlamyine.
Mawlamyine
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mawlamyine, formerly Moulmein, is the fourth-largest city in Myanmar, 300 kilometres southeast of Yangon and 70 kilometres south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin River.
Mottama
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Paung Township, Thaton District, Mon State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.52551° or 16° 31′ 32″ northLongitude
97.60841° or 97° 36′ 30″ eastPopulation
48,600Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)United Nations Location Code
MM MAROpen location code
7M8VGJG5+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 26576145OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Thai—“Mottama” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Mottama”
- Basque: “Mottama”
- Bulgarian: “Мартабан”
- Burmese: “မုတ္တမ”
- Burmese: “မုတ္တမမြို့”
- Burmese: “မုတ္ထမ”
- Catalan: “Martaban”
- Catalan: “Mottama”
- Cebuano: “Martaban”
- Chinese: “莫塔马”
- Chinese: “马达班”
- Dutch: “Mottama”
- French: “Martaban”
- French: “Mottama”
- German: “Martaban”
- German: “Mottama”
- Greek: “Μοτάμα”
- Indonesian: “Mottama”
- Italian: “Martaban”
- Italian: “Mottama”
- Japanese: “マルタバン”
- Japanese: “マルダバン”
- Japanese: “モッタマ”
- Korean: “모타마”
- Korean: “뭇따마”
- Latin: “Martaban”
- Latin: “Martabanum”
- Lithuanian: “Martabanas”
- Lithuanian: “Motama”
- Lithuanian: “Moutama”
- Mon: “မတ္တမ၊ ဍုင်”
- Mon: “မတ္တမ၊ ဍုၚ်”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻမုတ္တမ”
- Polish: “Martaban”
- Polish: “Mottama”
- Polish: “Muttama”
- Portuguese: “Martaban”
- Portuguese: “Martabão”
- Portuguese: “Mottama”
- Russian: “Мартабан”
- Shan: “မူၵ်ႉတမ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Swedish: “Mottama”
- Thai: “Mottama”
- Thai: “มะตะบัน”
- Thai: “เมาะตะมะ”
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