Myawaddy
Myawaddy or Myawadi is a border town in Myanmar. The Mae Sot - Myawaddy border crossing is the main overland entry point for foreigners wishing to get from Bangkok to Yangon or Thailand to Myanmar in general, and vice-versa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tristanb, Public domain.
Photo: Tristanb, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 45,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Myawaddy township” and “Myawadi”
Myawaddy
- Categories: township of Myanmar, border city, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Myawaddy Township, Myawaddy District, Kayin State, Southeastern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.6872° or 16° 41′ 14″ northLongitude
98.5071° or 98° 30′ 26″ eastPopulation
45,000Elevation
676 feet (206 metres)United Nations Location Code
MM MWDOpen location code
7M8WMGP4+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 790702923OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Myawaddy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مياوادي”
- Bengali: “মিয়াওয়াড্ডি”
- Burmese: “မြဝတီ”
- Burmese: “မြဝတီမြို့”
- Chinese: “妙瓦底”
- Chinese: “渺瓦底”
- Chinese: “米亞瓦迪”
- Chinese: “苗瓦迪”
- Dutch: “Myawaddy”
- Esperanto: “Mjavadi”
- French: “Myawaddy”
- German: “Myawaddy”
- Italian: “Myawaddy”
- Japanese: “ミャワディ”
- Korean: “먀워디”
- Korean: “미야와디”
- Malay: “Myawaddy”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻမျဝတီႏ”
- Polish: “Myawaddy”
- Polish: “Myawadi”
- Russian: “Мьявади”
- Russian: “Мья́вади”
- Scots: “Mywaddy”
- Shan: “မျႃႉဝတီႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “မျႃႉဝတီႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းမျႃႉဝတီႇ”
- Spanish: “Myawaddy”
- Swedish: “Myawaddy”
- Tamil: “மியாவதி நகரம்”
- Thai: “เมียวดี”
- Ukrainian: “М’яваді”
- Urdu: “میاوڈے”
- Vietnamese: “Myawaddy”
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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 “Myawaddy”. Photo: Tristanb, Public domain.