Pathein
Pathein, formerly called Bassein, is the largest city and the capital of the Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar. It is located 190 km west of Yangon within Pathein Township on the bank of the Pathein River—a western branch of the Irrawaddy River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 316,000 residents
- Description: city in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Bassein”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kyaut Tie Stadium.
Pathein
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Pathein Township, Pathein District, Ayeyarwady Region, Southern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.7833° or 16° 47′ northLongitude
94.7333° or 94° 44′ eastPopulation
316,000Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)IATA airport code
BSXUnited Nations Location Code
MM BSXOpen location code
7M8PQPMM+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 26576187OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1328421Wikidata ID
Q870103
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Pathein” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باثين”
- Asturian: “Pathein”
- Basque: “Pathein”
- Bengali: “প্যাথেইন”
- Bengali: “বাসেইন”
- Bulgarian: “Патхеин”
- Burmese: “Pathein”
- Burmese: “ပုသိမ်”
- Burmese: “ပုသိမ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Pathein”
- Cebuano: “Pathein”
- Chinese: “勃生”
- Danish: “Pathein”
- Dutch: “Bassein”
- Dutch: “Pathein”
- Dutch: “Puthein”
- Esperanto: “Patejn”
- Finnish: “Bassein”
- Finnish: “Pathein”
- French: “Pathein”
- German: “Pathein”
- Greek: “Μπασέιν”
- Greek: “Παθέιν”
- Gujarati: “પાથેન”
- Hebrew: “פאטיין”
- Hindi: “पथेइन”
- Hungarian: “Patein”
- Hungarian: “Pathein”
- Indonesian: “Pathein”
- Italian: “Bassein”
- Italian: “Pathein”
- Japanese: “バセイン”
- Japanese: “パセイン”
- Japanese: “パテイン”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಥೇಇನ್”
- Korean: “바세인”
- Korean: “파테인”
- Latvian: “Patheina”
- Lithuanian: “Patheinas”
- Malay: “Pathein”
- Marathi: “पाथेइन”
- Mon: “ဖာသီ၊ ဍုၚ်”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bassein”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pathein”
- Norwegian: “Pathein”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပတေင်”
- Persian: “پاتین”
- Polish: “Basejn”
- Polish: “Bassein”
- Polish: “Puthein”
- Portuguese: “Pathein”
- Pwo Eastern Karen: “ဍုံပ်ုသိင်”
- Russian: “Бассейн (город)”
- Russian: “Бассейн”
- Russian: “Пантейн”
- Russian: “Патейн”
- Scots: “Pathein”
- Shan: “ပတဵင်ႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ပတဵင်ႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပတဵင်ႇ”
- Sinhala: “පැතෙයින්”
- Spanish: “Pathein”
- Swedish: “Pathein”
- Tamil: “பத்தேன்”
- Tamil: “பாதீன்”
- Telugu: “పాథేయిన్”
- Thai: “พะสิม”
- Turkish: “Pathein”
- Ukrainian: “Пантейн”
- Ukrainian: “Патейн”
- Urdu: “پاتھین”
- Vietnamese: “Pathein”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pathein”
- Yue Chinese: “Pathein”
- Yue Chinese: “勃生”
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