Pyay
Pyay, and formerly anglicised as Prome, is the principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar. Pyay is located on the bank of the Irrawaddy River, 260 km north-west of Yangon.- Type: City with 135,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Prome”, “Pyè”, “Pyei”, and “Pyit”
Pyay
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Pyay Township, Pyay District, Bago Region, Southern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.8167° or 18° 49′ north
Longitude
95.2167° or 95° 13′ east
Population
135,000
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
IATA airport code
PRU
United Nations Location Code
MM PRU
Open location code
7MCQR688+MM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Pyay” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Pyay”
- Bengali: “প্রোম”
- Bulgarian: “Пяй”
- Burmese: “Pye”
- Burmese: “ပြည်”
- Burmese: “ပြည်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Prome”
- Cebuano: “Pyay”
- Chinese: “卑謬市”
- Chinese: “卑謬鎮”
- Chinese: “卑谬”
- Chinese: “卑谬镇”
- Czech: “Prome”
- Czech: “Pyay”
- Dutch: “Pyay”
- Esperanto: “Pji”
- Esperanto: “Prome”
- French: “Prome”
- German: “Pyay”
- Hebrew: “פיאי”
- Irish: “Pyay”
- Italian: “Prome”
- Japanese: “ピイ”
- Korean: “삐”
- Korean: “프롬”
- Lithuanian: “Pjajus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pyay”
- Norwegian: “Pyay”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပီ”
- Polish: “Pyain”
- Portuguese: “Prome”
- Russian: “Проме”
- Russian: “Пьи”
- Shan: “ပျီႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ပျီႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပျီႇ”
- Spanish: “Pyay”
- Swedish: “Pyay”
- Thai: “ปยี”
- Thai: “ปรอน”
- Thai: “แปร”
- Ukrainian: “П’ї”
- Urdu: “پیاے”
- Yue Chinese: “卑謬鎮”
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