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 in the northern part of the city.
- Type: City with 289,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Magway, Myanmar”, “Магуэ (город)”, and “มาเกว”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minbu.
Magway
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Magway Township, Magway District, Magway, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
20.1491° or 20° 8′ 57″ north
Longitude
94.9214° or 94° 55′ 17″ east
Population
289,000
Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)
IATA airport code
MWQ
UN/LOCODE
MM MWQ
Open location code
7MGP4WXC+MG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Magway” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማግዌ”
- Arabic: “ماغاواي”
- Arabic: “ماغوي”
- Asturian: “Magway”
- Azerbaijani: “Magway”
- Basque: “Magway”
- Bengali: “মগওয়ে”
- Bengali: “ম্যাগওয়ে”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Magway”
- Hebrew: “מגווי”
- Hindi: “मगवे”
- Hindi: “मग्वे”
- Indonesian: “Magway”
- Italian: “Magway”
- Japanese: “マグウェ”
- Japanese: “マグウェー”
- Javanese: “Magway”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಗ್ವೆ”
- Kazakh: “Магве”
- Kirghiz: “Магве”
- Korean: “마궤”
- Korean: “머궤”
- Latvian: “Magve”
- Lithuanian: “Magvė”
- Malay: “Magway”
- Marathi: “मॅगवे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Magway”
- Norwegian: “Magway”
- Oromo: “Magway”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻမကွေး”
- Panjabi: “ਮੈਗਵੇ”
- Persian: “ماگوای”
- Persian: “ماگوی”
- Polish: “Magwe”
- Portuguese: “Maguai”
- Portuguese: “Magway”
- Pushto: “ماغوي”
- Russian: “Магуэ”
- Scots: “Magway, Burma”
- Shan: “မၵူၺ်း၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းမၵူၺ်း”
- Sinhala: “මැග්වේ”
- Somali: “Magway”
- Spanish: “Magway”
- Swahili: “Magway”
- Swedish: “Magway”
- Tajik: “Magvay”
- Tamil: “மாஃவெ”
- Tamil: “மாகுவே”
- Tatar: “Magway”
- Telugu: “మాగ్వే”
- Thai: “มะกเว”
- Turkish: “Magway”
- Ukrainian: “Магуе”
- Urdu: “ماجوای”
- Urdu: “ماگوے، میانمار”
- Urdu: “میگوے”
- Uzbek: “Magway”
- Vietnamese: “Magway, Myanmar”
- Vietnamese: “Magway”
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