Magway
Magway or Magwe is the capital city of Magway Region of Myanmar, and situated on the banks of the Irrawaddy River. The Myathalun Pagoda is located at the north of the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 289,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Magway, Myanmar”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minbu.
Minbu
Town
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Minbu is a city in Magwe Division, Myanmar. As of 2014, the city has an urban population of 22,962. The area consists of low plain-land towards the Ayeyarwady River, and of undulating country inland rising higher and higher westwards towards the Arakan Mountains.
Magway
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Magway Township, Magway District, Magway Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
20.1491° or 20° 8′ 57″ northLongitude
94.9214° or 94° 55′ 17″ eastPopulation
289,000Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)IATA airport code
MWQUnited Nations Location Code
MM MWQOpen location code
7MGP4WXC+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 26576172OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1312609Wikidata ID
Q957326
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Magway” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماغاواي”
- Asturian: “Magway”
- Basque: “Magway”
- Bengali: “মগওয়ে”
- Breton: “Magway”
- Burmese: “မကွေး”
- Burmese: “မကွေးမြို့”
- Catalan: “Magwe”
- Cebuano: “Magway”
- Chinese: “馬圭”
- Chinese: “马圭”
- Danish: “Magwe”
- Dutch: “Magway”
- Finnish: “Magway”
- French: “Magway”
- French: “Magwe”
- German: “Magway”
- German: “Magwe”
- Greek: “Μαγκουέι”
- Gujarati: “મેગવે”
- Hebrew: “מגווי”
- Hindi: “मगवे”
- Indonesian: “Magway”
- Italian: “Magway”
- Japanese: “マグウェ”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಗ್ವೆ”
- Korean: “마궤”
- Korean: “머궤”
- Latvian: “Magve”
- Lithuanian: “Magvė”
- Malay: “Magway”
- Marathi: “मॅगवे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Magway”
- Norwegian: “Magway”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻမကွေး”
- Persian: “ماگوای، میانمار”
- Persian: “ماگوای”
- Polish: “Magwe”
- Portuguese: “Maguai”
- Russian: “Магуэ (город)”
- Russian: “Магуэ”
- Scots: “Magway, Burma”
- Shan: “မၵူၺ်း၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းမၵူၺ်း”
- Sinhala: “මැග්වේ”
- Spanish: “Magway”
- Swedish: “Magway”
- Tamil: “மாஃவெ”
- Tamil: “மாகுவே”
- Telugu: “మాగ్వే”
- Thai: “มะกเว”
- Thai: “มาเกว”
- Turkish: “Magway”
- Ukrainian: “Магуе”
- Urdu: “ماجوای”
- Vietnamese: “Magway, Myanmar”
- Vietnamese: “Magway”
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