Shwemawdaw Pagoda
The Shwemawdaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa located in Bago, Myanmar. At 125 m in overall height, the Shwemadaw is the tallest stupa in the world. The annual pagoda festival is a 10-day affair that takes place during the Burmese month of Tagu.Photo: Vera & Jean-Christophe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: Buddhist pagoda in Bago, Myanmar
- Also known as: “Shwemawdaw Paya” and “Shwemawdaw Paya Pagoda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kanbawzathadi Palace and Hintha Gon Pagoda.
Kanbawzathadi Palace
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kanbawzathadi Palace is a palace in Bago, Myanmar. The original palace, built for King Bayinnaung in 1556, consisted of 76 apartments and halls. It was burned down in 1599.
Hintha Gon Pagoda
Buddhist temple
Photo: ခင်မောင်မောင်လွင်, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hintha Gon Pagoda is a major Buddhist shrine located in Bago, in the Bago Region of Myanmar. It is a popular tourist destination, named after the legendary Hintha bird, a symbol of the Mon people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bago and Thanatpin.
Bago
Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bago or Pegu, formerly Hanthawaddy, is the capital city of Bago Division in the Irrawaddy region and the 4th biggest city of Myanmar with a population of 254,000.
Thanatpin
Town
Thanatpin is a town in Thanatpin Township, Bago District, Bago Region in Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Thanatpin Township. Thanatpin is situated 6 miles southeast of Shwemawdaw Pagoda.
Shwemawdaw Pagoda
- Category: pagoda
- Location: Bago Township, Bago District, Bago Region, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Vietnamese—“Shwemawdaw Pagoda” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “ရွှေမော ဓော”
- Burmese: “ရွှေမောဓော”
- Burmese: “ရွှေမောဓောစေတီ”
- Burmese: “ရွှေမောဓောဘုရား(ပဲခူး)”
- Burmese: “ရွှေမောဓောဘုရား”
- Burmese: “ရွှေမော်ဓောဘုရား(ပဲခူး)”
- Chinese: “瑞摩屠宝塔”
- Chinese: “瑞摩屠寶塔”
- Chinese: “瑞毛杜塔”
- Italian: “Pagoda Shwemawdaw”
- Japanese: “シュエモードー・パゴダ”
- Japanese: “シュエモードー・パヤー”
- Persian: “شیمدو پایا”
- Slovenian: “Pagoda Shwemawdaw”
- Tamil: “சவேமாவதாவ் அடுக்குத் தூபி”
- Thai: “เจดีย์ชเวมอดอ”
- Thai: “ชเวมอดอ”
- Thai: “พระธาตุมุเตา”
- Thai: “พระมหาธาตุเจดีย์ชเวมอดอ”
- Thai: “พระมุเตา”
- Thai: “มุเตา”
- Vietnamese: “Chùa Shwemawdaw”
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