Amarapura
Amarapura is a city in Mandalay Division in Central Myanmar. It was the capital of Burma in the early 19th century and is the home of a famous bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DANIEL JULIE, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 238,000 residents
- Description: town in Mandalay, Myanmar
- Also known as: “Āmārapūra”, “Amarapura Hmandan”, “Taungmyo”, and “Ummerapoora”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kyauktawgyi Pagoda.
Kyauktawgyi Pagoda
Buddhist temple
Photo: Photo Dharma, CC BY 2.0.
Kyauktawgyi Pagoda is a Buddhist pagoda located in Amarapura, Burma, near the Taungthaman Lake. It was built in 1847 by King Pagan Min on the model of the Ananda Pagoda at Pagan.
Amarapura
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Mandalay District, Mandalay Region, Central Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.9031° or 21° 54′ 11″ northLongitude
96.0495° or 96° 2′ 58″ eastPopulation
238,000Elevation
259 feet (79 metres)Open location code
7MHRW23X+7QOpenStreetMap ID
node 4820843874OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1329221Wikidata ID
Q454949
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Amarapura” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Amarapura”
- Basque: “Amarapura”
- Burmese: “အမရပူရ”
- Burmese: “အမရပူရမြို့”
- Catalan: “Amarapura”
- Chinese: “阿摩羅補羅”
- Chinese: “阿玛拉普拉”
- Chinese: “阿瑪拉普拉”
- Chinese: “阿馬拉布拉”
- Chinese: “阿马拉布拉”
- Dutch: “Amarapura (stad)”
- Dutch: “Amarapura”
- French: “Amarapura”
- German: “Amarapura”
- Indonesian: “Amarapura”
- Italian: “Amarapura”
- Japanese: “アマラプーラ”
- Japanese: “アマラプラ”
- Korean: “아마라뿌라”
- Korean: “아마라푸라”
- Latin: “Amarapura”
- Lithuanian: “Amarapura”
- Malayalam: “അമരപുര”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amarapura”
- Norwegian: “Amarapura”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻအမရပူရ”
- Persian: “امراپورا”
- Polish: “Amarapura”
- Polish: “Amayabuya”
- Portuguese: “Amarapura”
- Russian: “Амарапура”
- Russian: “Амаяпуя”
- Scots: “Amarapura”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းဢမရပူႇရ”
- Shan: “ဢမရပူႇရ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဢမရပူႇရ”
- Slovenian: “Amarapura”
- Spanish: “Amarapura”
- Swedish: “Amarapura”
- Tamil: “அமராபுரா”
- Thai: “อมรปุระ”
- Ukrainian: “Амарапура”
- Vietnamese: “Amarapura, Bellary”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Amarapura”. Photo: DANIEL JULIE, CC BY 2.0.