Yangon

Yangon, formerly known in English as Rangoon, is the largest city in and was the capital of the country until it was replaced by in 2005.
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  • City with 5,160,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 98 feet (30 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code RGN
  • …was formerly known as “Rangoon”
  • Description: former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region
  • Also known as
    “Rangoon City”
    “Yangon City”
    “Yangon Region”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shwedagon Paya and Yangon Zoological Gardens.

Buddhist temple
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The Shwedagon Pagoda, officially named Shwedagon Zedi…

Zoo
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The Yangon Zoo is the oldest and the second largest zoo in .

Railway station
, also known as Yangon…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tamwe Township and Mingala Taungnyunt Township.

Suburb
is located in east central Yangon, .

Suburb
is a township of Yangon, Myanmar.

Suburb
is in the north central part of Yangon.

Yangon

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Latitude
16.7967° or 16° 47′ 48″ north
Longitude
96.161° or 96° 9′ 40″ east
UN/LOCODE
MM RGN and MM YAN
Open location code
7M8RQ5W6+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26576175
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1298824
Wiki­data ID
Q37995

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Yangon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dagon”
  • Afrikaans: “Rangoen”
  • Afrikaans: “Yangoen”
  • Afrikaans: “Yangon”
  • Albanian: “Jangon”
  • Albanian: “Yangon”
  • Amharic: “ራንጉን”
  • Amharic: “ያንጎን”
  • Arabic: “رانجون”
  • Arabic: “رانغون”
  • Arabic: “يانجون”
  • Arabic: “يانغون”
  • Armenian: “Յանգոն”
  • Armenian: “Ռանգուն”
  • Arpitan: “Rangoun”
  • Asturian: “Yangon”
  • Asturian: “Yangôn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yanqon”
  • Balinese: “Yangon”
  • Bashkir: “Янгон”
  • Basque: “Yangon”
  • Belarusian: “Янгон”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াংগুন”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াঙ্গুন”
  • Bengali: “রেঙ্গুন”
  • Bosnian: “Rangoon”
  • Breton: “Yangon”
  • Bulgarian: “Янгон”
  • Burmese: “ရန်ကုန်”
  • Burmese: “ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း”
  • Burmese: “ရန်ကုန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Yangon”
  • Cebuano: “Yangon (kapital sa rehiyon sa Burma)”
  • Cebuano: “Yangon”
  • Central Kurdish: “یانگۆن”
  • Chechen: “Янгон”
  • Chinese: “仰光”
  • Chinese: “仰光市”
  • Chinese: “大光”
  • Chuvash: “Янгон”
  • Croatian: “Yangon”
  • Czech: “Rangún”
  • Czech: “Yangon”
  • Czech: “Yankoun”
  • Danish: “Rangoon”
  • Danish: “Yangon”
  • Dutch: “Rangoon”
  • Dutch: “Yangon”
  • Dutch: “Yangoon”
  • Dzongkha: “རང་གཱུན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Янгон”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يانجون”
  • Esperanto: “Jangono”
  • Esperanto: “Ranguno”
  • Estonian: “Ranguun”
  • Estonian: “Yangon”
  • Extremaduran: “Yangon”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yangon”
  • Finnish: “Yangon”
  • Finnish: “Yangôn”
  • French: “Rangoun”
  • French: “Yangon”
  • Galician: “Rangún”
  • Galician: “Yangon”
  • Georgian: “იანგონი”
  • German: “Yangon”
  • German: “Rangun” (historical)
  • Greek: “Γιανγκόν”
  • Greek: “Ρανγκούν”
  • Gujarati: “યાંગૂન”
  • Haitian: “Rangounn”
  • Haitian: “Yangon”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngióng-kông”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yangon”
  • Hausa: “Yangon”
  • Hebrew: “יאנגון”
  • Hebrew: “ינגון”
  • Hebrew: “ראנגון”
  • Hebrew: “רנגון”
  • Hindi: “यंगून”
  • Hindi: “यांगून”
  • Hindi: “यांगोन”
  • Hindi: “यांगौन”
  • Hindi: “येंगून”
  • Hindi: “रंगून”
  • Hungarian: “Jangon”
  • Hungarian: “Rangun” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Jangún”
  • Ido: “Rangoon”
  • Ido: “Yangon”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Yangon”
  • Indonesian: “Yangon”
  • Indonesian: “Yangoon”
  • Interlingue: “Yangon”
  • Irish: “Rangún”
  • Italian: “Rangoon” (historical)
  • Italian: “Yangon”
  • Japanese: “ヤンゴン”
  • Japanese: “ラングーン”
  • Javanese: “Yangon”
  • Kannada: “ಯಂಗೊನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾಂಗಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾಂಗೊನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Янгон қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Янгон”
  • Khmer: “យ៉ាំងហ្គូន”
  • Khmer: “រ៉ន់កុន់”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ranggun”
  • Kinaray-A: “Yanggong”
  • Kirghiz: “Рангун”
  • Korean: “랑군”
  • Korean: “양곤”
  • Kurdish: “Yangon”
  • Lao: “ຢ່າງກຸ້ງ”
  • Latin: “Rangunum”
  • Latvian: “Jangona”
  • Latvian: “Ranguna”
  • Latvian: “Rangūna”
  • Lithuanian: “Jangonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Okala”
  • Lithuanian: “Rangūnas”
  • Low German: “Yangon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rangun”
  • Macedonian: “Јангон”
  • Magahi: “याङ्गून”
  • Magahi: “रङ्गून”
  • Malagasy: “Rangun”
  • Malay: “Yangon”
  • Malayalam: “യംഗോൺ”
  • Malayalam: “യങ്കോൺ”
  • Malayalam: “യാങ്കോൺ”
  • Maltese: “Yangon”
  • Marathi: “यांगून”
  • Marathi: “यांगोन”
  • Marathi: “रंगून”
  • Mazanderani: “يانگون”
  • Mazanderani: “یانگون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yangon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yangon”
  • Mingrelian: “იანგონი”
  • Mongolian: “Янгон хот”
  • Mongolian: “Янгон”
  • Navajo: “Anaʼí Ádaadinii”
  • Nepali: “रंगुन”
  • Nepali: “रङ्गुन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rangun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yangon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yangon”
  • Norwegian: “Yangon”
  • Novial: “Yangon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rangon”
  • Oriya: “ୟାଂଗୋନ”
  • Oromo: “Yangon”
  • Ossetian: “Янгон”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻရန်ႏတကွုန်ႏ”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਂਗੋਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੰਗੂਨ”
  • Persian: “رانگون”
  • Persian: “یانگون”
  • Polish: “Rangun”
  • Polish: “Yangon”
  • Polish: “Yangun”
  • Portuguese: “Rangum”
  • Portuguese: “Yangon”
  • Pushto: “يانجون”
  • Romanian: “Yangon”
  • Russia Buriat: “Янгон”
  • Russian: “Рангун” (historical)
  • Russian: “Янгон”
  • Sanskrit: “रङ्गून”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱮᱝᱜᱳᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Rangoon”
  • Scots: “Yangon”
  • Serbian: “Јангон”
  • Serbian: “Рангун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yangon”
  • Shan: “တႃႈၵုင်ႈ”
  • Shan: “ယၼ်ႇၵုင်ႇ”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းတႃႈၵုင်ႈ”
  • Sicilian: “Rangoon”
  • Silesian: “Rangun”
  • Sindhi: “يانگون”
  • Sinhala: “යැන්ගොන්”
  • Slovak: “Rangún”
  • Slovenian: “Jangon”
  • Somali: “Yangon”
  • Spanish: “Division de Yangon”
  • Spanish: “División de Yangon”
  • Spanish: “Rangún”
  • Spanish: “Yangón”
  • Swahili: “Yangon”
  • Swedish: “Rangoon (regionhuvudort i Burma)”
  • Swedish: “Rangoon”
  • Tagalog: “Ranggon”
  • Tagalog: “Ranggun”
  • Tagalog: “Rangon”
  • Tagalog: “Yanggon”
  • Tagalog: “Yanggun”
  • Tagalog: “Yangon”
  • Tagalog: “Yangoon”
  • Tagalog: “Yangun”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥖᥣ ᥐᥧᥒᥲ, ᥝᥥᥒᥰ”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥝᥥᥒ ᥰᥖᥣ ᥐᥧᥒᥲ”
  • Tajik: “Yangon”
  • Tajik: “Янгон”
  • Tamil: “இரங்கூன்”
  • Tamil: “யங்கோன்”
  • Tamil: “யாங்கான்”
  • Tamil: “ரங்கூன்”
  • Tatar: “Yangon”
  • Telugu: “యాంగోన్”
  • Thai: “กรุงย่างกุ้ง”
  • Thai: “ย่างกุ้ง”
  • Thai: “ย่่างกุ้ง”
  • Thai: “ร่างกุ้ง”
  • Tibetan: “ཡང་ཀོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཡང་ཀོང་”
  • Tibetan: “རན་གུང་”
  • Turkish: “Yangon”
  • Turkmen: “Ýangon”
  • Udmurt: “Янгон”
  • Uighur: “Ran’gon”
  • Uighur: “Rangon”
  • Uighur: “رانگون”
  • Ukrainian: “Ранґун”
  • Ukrainian: “Янгон”
  • Ukrainian: “Янґон”
  • Urdu: “یانگون”
  • Uzbek: “Yangon”
  • Venetian: “Yangon”
  • Veps: “Jangon”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngưỡng Quang”
  • Vietnamese: “Răng Gun”
  • Vietnamese: “Răng-gun”
  • Vietnamese: “Yangon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yangon”
  • Welsh: “Yangon”
  • Western Armenian: “Եանկոն”
  • Western Frisian: “Rangoon”
  • Western Frisian: “Yangon”
  • Western Panjabi: “رنگون”
  • Wu Chinese: “仰光”
  • Yiddish: “יאנגאן”
  • Yiddish: “ראנגון”
  • Yue Chinese: “仰光”
  • Zhuang: “Yangjgvangh”

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