Kalaw
Kalaw is a hill station in Myanmar, built by the British in colonial times, at 1,320 m above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Kalaw
- Type: Town with 93,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Categories: city, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Taunggyi District, Shan State, Eastern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
20.6357° or 20° 38′ 9″ northLongitude
96.5669° or 96° 34′ 1″ eastPopulation
93,000Elevation
4,341 feet (1,323 metres)Open location code
7MGRJHP8+7QOpenStreetMap ID
node 2241969824OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1321275Wikidata ID
Q6351676
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Ukrainian—“Kalaw” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “কালাও”
- Burmese: “ကလော”
- Burmese: “ကလောမြို့”
- Chinese: “卡老”
- Chinese: “格劳”
- Dutch: “Kalaw”
- French: “Kalaw”
- German: “Kalaw”
- Italian: “Kalaw”
- Japanese: “カロー”
- Kannada: “ಕಲಾವು”
- Korean: “칼로 (미얀마)”
- Korean: “칼로”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻကလော်ꩻ”
- Polish: “Kalaw”
- Portuguese: “Kalaw”
- Russian: “Кало”
- Shan: “ၵၢတ်ႇလေႃႉ (ၵလေႃး)၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ၵၢတ်ႇလေႃႉ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၵၢတ်ႇလေႃႉ”
- Swedish: “Kalaw”
- Ukrainian: “Кало”
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