Taungoo
Taungoo, also spelled Toungoo and formerly Toung-ngú, is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west.
Photo: Victorcouto, Public domain.- Type: Town with 107,000 residents
- Description: city in the Bago Region of Myanmar
- Also known as: “Taungngu”, “Taungoo City”, “Toung-ngu”, “Toung-ngú”, “Toungoo”, and “Toungoo City”
Taungoo
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Taungoo Township, Taungoo District, Bago Region, Southern Myanmar, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.9402° or 18° 56′ 25″ north
Longitude
96.4333° or 96° 25′ 60″ east
Population
107,000
Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)
Open location code
7MCRWCRM+38
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Taungoo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاونغو”
- Asturian: “Taungoo”
- Bengali: “টাউঙ্গু”
- Bulgarian: “Таунго”
- Burmese: “တောင်ငူ”
- Burmese: “တောင်ငူမြို့”
- Catalan: “Taung-ngu”
- Catalan: “Taungoo”
- Catalan: “Toungoo”
- Cebuano: “Taungoo”
- Chinese: “Taungoo”
- Chinese: “东吁”
- Chinese: “东吁市”
- Chinese: “同古”
- Chinese: “東吁”
- Chinese: “東籲”
- Czech: “Taungoo”
- Czech: “Toungoo”
- Danish: “Taungoo”
- Dutch: “Taungoo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاونجو”
- Esperanto: “Taungu”
- Finnish: “Taungoo”
- French: “Taungoo”
- French: “Taungu”
- French: “Taungû”
- French: “Toungou”
- German: “Taungoo”
- Greek: “Τόγκου”
- Gujarati: “ટૌનગ્યૂ”
- Hindi: “लंगटॉकता”
- Indonesian: “Taungoo”
- Indonesian: “Toungoo”
- Irish: “Taungoo”
- Italian: “Taungoo”
- Italian: “Taungù”
- Italian: “Toungoo”
- Japanese: “タウングー”
- Kannada: “ತಾಉಂಗ್ವೂ”
- Kirghiz: “Таунгу”
- Korean: “따웅우”
- Korean: “타웅우”
- Korean: “퉁구”
- Latvian: “Taungu”
- Lithuanian: “Taungu”
- Malay: “Taungoo”
- Marathi: “टाउनगू”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taungoo”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻတောင်ႏအူ”
- Polish: “Taungngu”
- Polish: “Taungoo”
- Portuguese: “Taungû”
- Pwo Eastern Karen: “ဍုံတံင်အူ”
- Russian: “Таунгу”
- Russian: “Тауннгу”
- Shan: “တွင်ႇငူႇ”
- Shan: “တွင်ႇဢူႇ”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းတွင်ႇငူႇ”
- Sinhala: “ටොන්ගු”
- Spanish: “Taungoo”
- Swedish: “Taungoo”
- Tamil: “டாங்கு”
- Telugu: “టౌన్గూ”
- Thai: “Taungoo”
- Thai: “Toungoo”
- Thai: “ตองอู”
- Thai: “เมืองตองอู”
- Turkish: “Taungoo”
- Ukrainian: “Таунгу”
- Urdu: “تاونجو”
- Urdu: “تاونگوو”
- Uzbek: “Taungu”
- Vietnamese: “Taungoo”
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