Bago Region
Bago District
Bago Township

Bago

Bago or Pegu, formerly Hanthawaddy, is the capital city of Bago Division in the Irrawaddy region and the 4th biggest city of with a population of 254,000.
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  • Type: City with 284,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Bago Region, Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Bago, Myanmar”, “Begu”, “Pegu”, and “Пеґу”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kanbawzathadi Palace and Shwemawdaw Paya.

Museum
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is a palace in Bago, . The original palace, built for King Bayinnaung in 1556, consisted of 76 apartments and halls. It was burned down in 1599.

Buddhist temple
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The Shwemawdaw Pagoda is a Buddhist located in Bago, . 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.

Buddhist temple
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The Shwethalyaung Temple (Burmese: ရွှေသာလျှောင်းဘုရား is a in the west side of Bago, Myanmar. The name Shwethalyaung means "Golden Image of the Sleeping Buddha" and the temple houses a reclining Buddha statue in the temple is 55 metres in length and 15 metres in height.

Bago

Latitude
17.3367° or 17° 20′ 12″ north
Longitude
96.4797° or 96° 28′ 47″ east
Population
284,000
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
United Nations Location Code
MM PEG
Open location code
7M9R8FPH+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26576210
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1300466
Wiki­data ID
Q800122
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Waray—“Bago” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Пегу”
  • Arabic: “باغو”
  • Asturian: “Bago”
  • Basque: “Bago”
  • Bengali: “বাগো”
  • Burmese: “ပဲခူးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bago”
  • Catalan: “Hanthawady”
  • Catalan: “Pegu”
  • Cebuano: “Bago (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Bago”
  • Chinese: “勃固”
  • Danish: “Bago”
  • Dutch: “Bago (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Bago”
  • Dutch: “Pegu (rijk)”
  • Dutch: “Pegu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باجو”
  • Esperanto: “Bago”
  • Esperanto: “Pegu”
  • Finnish: “Bago”
  • French: “Bago”
  • French: “Pegou”
  • French: “Pégou”
  • French: “Pegu”
  • Galician: “Pegu”
  • Georgian: “პეგუ”
  • German: “Bago”
  • German: “Hongsawadi”
  • Greek: “Μπάγκο”
  • Gujarati: “બેગો”
  • Hebrew: “באגו”
  • Hindi: “बगो”
  • Hungarian: “Bago”
  • Indonesian: “Bago (kota)”
  • Indonesian: “Bago”
  • Indonesian: “Pegu”
  • Irish: “Bago”
  • Italian: “Pegu”
  • Japanese: “バゴー”
  • Japanese: “ペグー”
  • Kannada: “ಬಗೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Пегу”
  • Korean: “바고 (미얀마)”
  • Korean: “바고”
  • Korean: “베쿠”
  • Korean: “페구”
  • Latvian: “Bago”
  • Lithuanian: “Bagas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pegu”
  • Malay: “Bago”
  • Marathi: “बेगो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bago”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pegu”
  • Norwegian: “Bago”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပဂိုꩻ”
  • Persian: “باگو، میانمار”
  • Polish: “Bago”
  • Polish: “Pegu”
  • Portuguese: “Pegu”
  • Portuguese: “Pegú”
  • Russian: “Баго”
  • Russian: “Пегу”
  • Shan: “ပႃႇၵိူဝ်၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “ပႃႇၵိူဝ်”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းပႃႇၵိူဝ်”
  • Sinhala: “බැගෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Bago, Burma”
  • Slovenian: “Bago”
  • Spanish: “Bago”
  • Spanish: “Pegu”
  • Swedish: “Bago”
  • Swedish: “Pegu”
  • Tamil: “பெகு”
  • Telugu: “బాగో”
  • Thai: “กรุงหงสาวดี”
  • Thai: “พะโค”
  • Thai: “เมืองหงสาวดี”
  • Thai: “หงสาวดี”
  • Turkish: “Bago, Myanmar”
  • Turkish: “Bago”
  • Ukrainian: “Баго”
  • Ukrainian: “Пегу”
  • Urdu: “باگو، برما”
  • Venetian: “Pegu”
  • Vietnamese: “Bago, Myanmar”
  • Vietnamese: “Bago”
  • Vietnamese: “Pegu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bago, Burma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bago, Myanmar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bago”

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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 “Bago”. Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.