Sittwe
Sittwe or Akyab is a city and district in Rakhine State, Western Myanmar. It is off limits due to the Myanmar Civil War.
- Type: City with 178,000 residents
- Description: city in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Akjabas”, “Saitway”, “Tsit-htwe”, “Ακυάμπ”, “Ситтуэй”, “აკიაბი”, “اكياب”, “আকিয়াব”, “ซิตเว”, “อัคยับ”, “아키아브”, “石兌”, and “阿恰布”
- Historically known as: “Akyab”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rakhine State Cultural Museum.
Sittwe
- Categories: big city, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Sittwe Township, Sittwe District, Rakhine, Western Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
20.1392° or 20° 8′ 21″ north
Longitude
92.8971° or 92° 53′ 50″ east
Population
178,000
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
IATA airport code
AKY
UN/LOCODE
MM AKY
Open location code
7MGJ4VQW+MR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Sittwe” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሲትዌ”
- Arabic: “سيتوي”
- Asturian: “Sittwe”
- Azerbaijani: “Sittwe”
- Basque: “Sittwe”
- Belarusian: “Сітуэ”
- Bengali: “সিতওয়ে”
- Bengali: “সিত্তওয়ে”
- Burmese: “Sittwe”
- Burmese: “စစ်တွေမြို့”
- Catalan: “Sittwe”
- Cebuano: “Sittwe”
- Chinese: “实兑”
- Chinese: “實兌”
- Czech: “Sittwe”
- Danish: “Sittwe”
- Dutch: “Sittwe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيتوى”
- Esperanto: “Sitŭe”
- Finnish: “Sittwe”
- French: “Sittwe”
- Georgian: “სიტუე”
- German: “Sittwe”
- Greek: “Σίτουε”
- Gujarati: “સીટવે”
- Hausa: “Sittwe”
- Hebrew: “סיטווה”
- Hindi: “सितवे”
- Indonesian: “Sittwe”
- Irish: “Sittwe”
- Italian: “Sittwe”
- Japanese: “シットウェ”
- Javanese: “Sittwe”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಟ್ಟವೇ”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಟ್ಟ್ವೆ”
- Kazakh: “Sittwe”
- Kirghiz: “Sittwe”
- Korean: “시트웨”
- Latvian: “Sitve”
- Lithuanian: “Sitvė”
- Malay: “Sittwe”
- Malayalam: “അക്യാബ്”
- Marathi: “सीटवे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sittwe”
- Norwegian: “Akyab”
- Norwegian: “Sittwe”
- Oromo: “Sittwe”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻသိစ်တွေ”
- Panjabi: “ਸਿੱਤਵੇ”
- Persian: “سیتوه”
- Polish: “Sittwe”
- Portuguese: “Sittwe”
- Pushto: “سيتوي”
- Rakhine: “စစ်တွေမြို့”
- Russian: “Акьяб”
- Russian: “Ситуэ”
- Shan: “ၸိတ်ႉတူၺ်ႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ၸိတ်ႉတူၺ်ႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၸိတ်ႉတူၺ်ႇ”
- Sinhala: “සිට්වේ”
- Slovenian: “Akjab”
- Somali: “Sittwe”
- Spanish: “Sittwe”
- Swahili: “Sittwe”
- Swedish: “Akyab”
- Swedish: “Sittwe”
- Tajik: “Sittvi”
- Tamil: “சிட்டவே”
- Tamil: “சிட்வி”
- Tatar: “Sittwe”
- Telugu: “సిట్వే”
- Thai: “ซิตตเว”
- Turkish: “Sittwe”
- Ukrainian: “Сітуе”
- Ukrainian: “Сітуэ”
- Urdu: “ویتوی”
- Uzbek: “Sittwe”
- Venetian: “Sittwe”
- Vietnamese: “Sittwe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sittwe”
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