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.
- City with about 135,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 380 feet (120 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code PRU
- …was formerly known as “Prome”
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as“Py蔓Pyei”“Pyit”
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Latitude
18.8167° or 18° 49′ north
Longitude
95.2167° or 95° 13′ east
UN/LOCODE
MM PRU
Open location code
7MCQR688+MM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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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