Bagan
Bagan is an area and archaeological site in the Central region of Myanmar, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Zaidush, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 22,000 residents
- Description: ancient city in Myanmar
- Also known as: “New Bagan”, “Pagan”, “Pugan”, and “Pugan Myahoet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lawkananda Paya - a big golden stupa and Abeyadana Temple.
Lawkananda Paya - a big golden stupa
Buddhist temple
Photo: Tsaetre, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lawkananda Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa located in Bagan, Myanmar. It was erected on the bank of the Ayeyarwady River, and built during the reign of King Anawrahta.
Abeyadana Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: G41rn8, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Abeyadana temple is a 12th century Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar. The temple complex has a large central temple, which has a rectangular plan.
Nanpaya
Buddhist temple
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nanpaya Temple is a historic Hindu temple located in Myinkaba, a village just south of Bagan, in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. The temple is situated adjacent to the Manuha Temple and is believed to have been built by King Makuta, the captive monarch of the defeated Thaton Kingdom.
Bagan
- Categories: township of Myanmar, archaeological site, ancient city, and locality
- Location: Nyaung-U Township, Nyaung-U District, Mandalay Region, Central Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.1317° or 21° 7′ 54″ northLongitude
94.8624° or 94° 51′ 45″ eastPopulation
22,000Elevation
246 feet (75 metres)United Nations Location Code
MM BPEOpen location code
7MHP4VJ6+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 597205381OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bagan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باغان”
- Asturian: “Bagan”
- Azerbaijani: “Baqan”
- Bashkir: “Паган”
- Basque: “Bagan”
- Basque: “Pagan”
- Belarusian: “Паган (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Паган”
- Bengali: “বাগান”
- Bulgarian: “Баган”
- Burmese: “ကျော်ထင်နော်ရထာ”
- Burmese: “ပုဂံ”
- Burmese: “ပုဂံမြို့”
- Catalan: “Bagan”
- Catalan: “Pagan”
- Cebuano: “Pagan”
- Chinese: “蒲甘”
- Croatian: “Bagan”
- Czech: “Bagan”
- Czech: “Pagan”
- Czech: “Pugam”
- Dutch: “Bagan”
- Dutch: “Pagan”
- Esperanto: “Bagan”
- Estonian: “Bagan”
- Finnish: “Bagan”
- Finnish: “Pagan”
- French: “Bagan”
- French: “Pagan”
- Georgian: “პაგანი”
- German: “Arimaddana”
- German: “Arimaddanapura”
- German: “Ausgedörrtes Land”
- German: “Bagan”
- German: “Kupferland”
- German: “Pagan”
- German: “Stadt Zerbrecher der Feinde”
- German: “Tambadipa”
- German: “Tassadessa”
- Greek: “Μπαγκάν”
- Hebrew: “באגאן”
- Hindi: “पुगं”
- Hungarian: “Bagan”
- Indonesian: “Bagan, Myanmar”
- Indonesian: “Bagan”
- Italian: “Bagan”
- Japanese: “バガン”
- Japanese: “パガン”
- Japanese: “パガン王朝”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಗನ್”
- Kazakh: “Паган”
- Khmer: “បាកាន”
- Khmer: “បុកាំ”
- Korean: “바간”
- Korean: “파간”
- Latin: “Bagan”
- Latin: “Pagan”
- Latvian: “Bagana”
- Literary Chinese: “蒲甘”
- Lithuanian: “Baganas”
- Lithuanian: “Paganas”
- Macedonian: “Баган”
- Malayalam: “ബഗാൻ”
- Maltese: “Bagan”
- Maltese: “Pagan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bagan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bagan”
- Pa'o Karen: “ပဂံႏ”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਗਾਨ”
- Persian: “باگان”
- Polish: “Pagan”
- Portuguese: “Bagã”
- Portuguese: “Bagan”
- Portuguese: “Pagã”
- Portuguese: “Pagan”
- Pwo Eastern Karen: “ပ်ုကင်”
- Russian: “Паган”
- Scots: “Bagan”
- Serbian: “Аримадана”
- Serbian: “Аримаданапура”
- Serbian: “Баган (Мандалеј регион)”
- Serbian: “Баган”
- Serbian: “Исушена земља”
- Serbian: “Паган”
- Serbian: “Тамбадипа”
- Serbian: “Тасадеса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bagan”
- Shan: “ပၵၢၼ်ႇ”
- Shan: “ပူးၵမ်ႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ပူးၵမ်ႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပူးၵမ်ႇ”
- Slovenian: “Bagan”
- Spanish: “Bagan”
- Swedish: “Bagan”
- Swedish: “Pagan”
- Tagalog: “Bagan”
- Tamil: “பாகன்”
- Tatar: “Паган (борынгы башкала)”
- Thai: “พุกาม”
- Thai: “เมืองพุกาม”
- Turkish: “Bagan”
- Ukrainian: “Паган”
- Vietnamese: “Bagan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bagan”
- Yue Chinese: “蒲甘”
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