Bago Region
Pyay District
Pyay Township

Pyay

Pyay, and formerly anglicised as Prome, is the principal town of in the in . Pyay is located on the bank of the , 260 km north-west of .
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  • Type: City with 135,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Prome”, “Pyè”, “Pyei”, and “Pyit”

Pyay

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
node 26576183
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1299154
Wiki­data ID
Q691747
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Yue Chinese—“Pyay” goes by many names.
  • 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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