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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 316,000 residents
- Description: city in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Bassein”, “Puthein”, “Μπασέιν”, “Бассейн (город)”, “বাসেইন”, “ပုသိမ်”, “바세인”, “バセイン”, and “パセイン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kyaut Tie Stadium.
Pathein
- Categories: town in Myanmar and locality
- Location: Pathein Township, Pathein District, Ayeyarwady, Southern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.7833° or 16° 47′ north
Longitude
94.7333° or 94° 44′ east
Population
316,000
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
IATA airport code
BSX
UN/LOCODE
MM BSX
Open location code
7M8PQPMM+88
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Pathein” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፓተይን”
- Arabic: “باثين”
- Arabic: “باثيين”
- Asturian: “Pathein”
- Azerbaijani: “Pathein”
- Basque: “Pathein”
- Bengali: “পাথাইন”
- Bengali: “প্যাথেইন”
- Bulgarian: “Патхеин”
- Burmese: “ပုသိမ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Pathein”
- Cebuano: “Pathein”
- Chinese: “勃生”
- Danish: “Pathein”
- Dutch: “Pathein”
- Esperanto: “Patejn”
- Finnish: “Pathein”
- French: “Pathein”
- German: “Pathein”
- Greek: “Παθέιν”
- Gujarati: “પાથેન”
- Hausa: “Pathein”
- Hebrew: “פאטיין”
- Hindi: “पथेइन”
- Hindi: “पाथीन”
- Hungarian: “Patein”
- Hungarian: “Pathein”
- Indonesian: “Pathein”
- Italian: “Pathein”
- Japanese: “パテイン”
- Javanese: “Pathein”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಥೇಇನ್”
- Kazakh: “Патейн”
- Kirghiz: “Патейн”
- Korean: “파테인”
- Latvian: “Patheina”
- Lithuanian: “Patheinas”
- Malay: “Pathein”
- Marathi: “पाथेइन”
- Mon: “ဖာသီ၊ ဍုၚ်”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pathein”
- Norwegian: “Pathein”
- Oromo: “Pathein”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပတေင်”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਥੇਇਨ”
- Persian: “پاتین”
- Polish: “Basejn”
- Portuguese: “Pathein”
- Pushto: “باثيين”
- Pwo Eastern Karen: “ဍုံပ်ုသိင်”
- Russian: “Бассейн”
- Russian: “Патейн”
- Scots: “Pathein”
- Shan: “ပတဵင်ႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပတဵင်ႇ”
- Sinhala: “පැතෙයින්”
- Somali: “Pathein”
- Spanish: “Pathein”
- Swahili: “Pathein”
- Swedish: “Pathein”
- Tajik: “Patein”
- Tamil: “பத்தேன்”
- Tamil: “பாதீன்”
- Tatar: “Pathein”
- Telugu: “పాథేయిన్”
- Thai: “พะสิม”
- Turkish: “Pathein”
- Ukrainian: “Пантейн”
- Ukrainian: “Патейн”
- Urdu: “پاتھین”
- Uzbek: “Pathein”
- Vietnamese: “Pathein”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pathein”
- Yue Chinese: “勃生”
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