Sittwe

Sittwe or Akyab is a city and district in Rakhine State, . It is off limits due to the Myanmar Civil War.
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  • City with 178,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 16 feet (5 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code AKY
  • …was formerly known as “Akyab”
  • Description: city in Myanmar

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rakhine State Cultural Museum.

Museum
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Sittwe

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Latitude
20.1392° or 20° 8′ 21″ north
Longitude
92.8971° or 92° 53′ 50″ east
UN/LOCODE
MM AKY
Open location code
7MGJ4VQW+MR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26576213
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1295765
Wiki­data ID
Q738748

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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: “আকিয়াব”
  • Bengali: “সিতওয়ে”
  • Bengali: “সিত্তওয়ে”
  • Burmese: “Sittwe”
  • Burmese: “စစ်တွေမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Akyab”
  • Catalan: “Sittwe”
  • Cebuano: “Sittwe”
  • Chinese: “实兑”
  • Chinese: “實兌”
  • Chinese: “石兌”
  • Chinese: “阿恰布”
  • Czech: “Akjab”
  • Czech: “Sittwe”
  • Danish: “Akyab”
  • Danish: “Sittwe”
  • Dutch: “Akyab”
  • Dutch: “Sittwe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيتوى”
  • Esperanto: “Akjab”
  • Esperanto: “Sitŭe”
  • Finnish: “Akyab”
  • Finnish: “Sittwe”
  • French: “Akyab”
  • French: “Sittwe”
  • Georgian: “აკიაბი”
  • Georgian: “სიტუე”
  • German: “Akjab”
  • German: “Akyab”
  • German: “Sittwe”
  • Greek: “Ακυάμπ”
  • Greek: “Σίτουε”
  • Gujarati: “સીટવે”
  • Hausa: “Sittwe”
  • Hebrew: “סיטווה”
  • Hindi: “सितवे”
  • Indonesian: “Sittwe”
  • Irish: “Sittwe”
  • Italian: “Akyab”
  • Italian: “Sittwe”
  • Japanese: “シットウェ”
  • Javanese: “Sittwe”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಟ್ಟವೇ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಟ್ಟ್ವೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Sittwe”
  • Kirghiz: “Sittwe”
  • Korean: “시트웨”
  • Korean: “아키아브”
  • Latvian: “Sitve”
  • Lithuanian: “Akjabas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sitvė”
  • Malay: “Sittwe”
  • Malayalam: “അക്യാബ്”
  • Marathi: “सीटवे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akyab”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sittwe”
  • Norwegian: “Akyab”
  • Norwegian: “Sittwe”
  • Oromo: “Sittwe”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻသိစ်တွေ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਿੱਤਵੇ”
  • Persian: “سیتوه”
  • Polish: “Akyab”
  • Polish: “Sittwe”
  • Portuguese: “Akyab”
  • Portuguese: “Sittwe”
  • Pushto: “سيتوي”
  • Rakhine: “စစ်တွေမြို့”
  • Russian: “Акьяб”
  • Russian: “Ситтуэй”
  • Russian: “Ситуэ”
  • Shan: “ၸိတ်ႉတူၺ်ႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “ၸိတ်ႉတူၺ်ႇ”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းၸိတ်ႉတူၺ်ႇ”
  • Sinhala: “සිට්වේ”
  • Slovenian: “Akjab”
  • Somali: “Sittwe”
  • Spanish: “Akyab”
  • Spanish: “Sittwe”
  • Swahili: “Sittwe”
  • Swedish: “Akjab”
  • Swedish: “Akyab”
  • Swedish: “Saitway”
  • Swedish: “Sittwe”
  • Swedish: “Tsit-htwe”
  • Tajik: “Sittvi”
  • Tamil: “சிட்டவே”
  • Tamil: “சிட்வி”
  • Tatar: “Sittwe”
  • Telugu: “సిట్వే”
  • Thai: “ซิตตเว”
  • Thai: “ซิตเว”
  • Thai: “อัคยับ”
  • Turkish: “Sittwe”
  • Ukrainian: “Сітуе”
  • Ukrainian: “Сітуэ”
  • Urdu: “اكياب”
  • Urdu: “ویتوی”
  • Uzbek: “Sittwe”
  • Venetian: “Sittwe”
  • Vietnamese: “Sittwe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sittwe”

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