Yangon
West Yangon District
Bahan Township

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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  • Type: City with 5,160,000 residents
  • Description: former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region
  • Also known as: “Rangoon City”, “Yangon City”, and “Yangon Region”
  • Historically known as: “Rangoon”
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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 Daw, and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded located in Yangon, Myanmar.

Zoo
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The Yangon Zoo is the oldest and the second largest zoo in . Located immediately north of downtown Yangon near , the 70-acre recreational park also includes a museum of natural history, an aquarium and an amusement park.

Railway station
, also known as Yangon Central Station, is the central station of . It is located within downtown Yangon, and serves as the gateway to Myanmar Railways' 3,126 mi rail network whose reach covers , upcountry, Shan hills, and the Taninthayi coast.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tamwe Township and Mingala Taungnyunt Township.

Suburb
is located in east central Yangon, . The township comprises 20 wards, and shares borders with in the north, and in the east, in the west, and Mingala Taungnyunt township in the south.

Suburb
is a township of Yangon, Myanmar. Located in the east-central part of the city, the township consists of 20 wards, and shares borders with in the west, Bahan township in the north, in the south, in the southwest, and the and in the east.

Suburb
is in the north central part of Yangon. The township comprises 18 wards, and shares borders with in the north, Kamayut township and in the east, in the west, and and in the south.

Yangon

Latitude
16.7967° or 16° 47′ 48″ north
Longitude
96.161° or 96° 9′ 40″ east
Population
5,160,000
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
IATA airport code
RGN
United Nations Location Codes
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: “Rangun”
  • 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: “Rangoon”
  • Asturian: “Yangon”
  • Asturian: “Yangôn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yanqon”
  • Balinese: “Yangon”
  • Bashkir: “Янгон”
  • Basque: “Rangun”
  • Basque: “Yangon”
  • Belarusian: “Рангун”
  • Belarusian: “Янгон”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াংগুন”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াঙ্গুন”
  • Bengali: “রেঙ্গুন”
  • Bosnian: “Rangoon”
  • Breton: “Yangon”
  • Bulgarian: “Рангун”
  • Bulgarian: “Янгон”
  • Burmese: “ရန်ကုန်”
  • Burmese: “ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း”
  • Burmese: “ရန်ကုန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Rangun”
  • Catalan: “Yangon”
  • Cebuano: “Yangon (kapital sa rehiyon sa Burma)”
  • Cebuano: “Yangon”
  • Central Kurdish: “یانگۆن”
  • Chechen: “Янгон”
  • Chinese: “Yangon”
  • Chinese: “仰光”
  • Chinese: “仰光市”
  • Chinese: “大光”
  • Chuvash: “Янгон”
  • Croatian: “Rangoon”
  • Croatian: “Yangon”
  • Czech: “Rangún”
  • Czech: “Yangon”
  • Czech: “Yankoun”
  • Danish: “Rangoon”
  • Danish: “Rangun”
  • Danish: “Yangon”
  • Danish: “Yangôn”
  • Dutch: “Rangoon”
  • Dutch: “Yangon”
  • Dutch: “Yangoon”
  • Eastern Mari: “Янгон”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يانجون”
  • Esperanto: “Jangono”
  • Esperanto: “Rangun”
  • Esperanto: “Ranguno”
  • Estonian: “Rangoon”
  • Estonian: “Ranguun”
  • Estonian: “Yangon”
  • Extremaduran: “Yangon”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yangon”
  • Finnish: “Rangoon”
  • Finnish: “Yangon”
  • Finnish: “Yangôn”
  • French: “Rangoon”
  • French: “Rangoun”
  • French: “Yangon”
  • Galician: “Rangún”
  • Galician: “Yangon”
  • Georgian: “იანგონი”
  • German: “Rangoon”
  • 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: “Rangoon”
  • Hungarian: “Rangun” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Jangún”
  • Icelandic: “Rangoon”
  • Icelandic: “Yangon”
  • Ido: “Rangoon”
  • Ido: “Yangon”
  • Ido: “Yangôn”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Yangon”
  • Indonesian: “Rangoon”
  • Indonesian: “Yangon”
  • Indonesian: “Yangoon”
  • Interlingue: “Yangon”
  • Irish: “Rangún”
  • Italian: “Rangoon” (historical)
  • Italian: “Rangun”
  • 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”
  • Latin: “Yangon”
  • Latvian: “Jangona”
  • Latvian: “Rangoon”
  • Latvian: “Ranguna”
  • Latvian: “Rangūna”
  • Latvian: “Yangon”
  • Lithuanian: “Jangonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Okala”
  • Lithuanian: “Rangūnas”
  • Low German: “Rangun”
  • Low German: “Yangon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rangun”
  • Macedonian: “Јангон”
  • Magahi: “याङ्गून”
  • Magahi: “रङ्गून”
  • Malagasy: “Rangun”
  • Malay: “Yangon”
  • Malayalam: “Yangon”
  • Malayalam: “യംഗോൺ”
  • Malayalam: “യങ്കോൺ”
  • Malayalam: “യാങ്കോൺ”
  • Maltese: “Rangoon”
  • Maltese: “Yangon”
  • Marathi: “यांगून”
  • Marathi: “यांगोन”
  • Marathi: “रंगून”
  • Mazanderani: “يانگون”
  • Mazanderani: “یانگون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yangon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yangon”
  • Mongolian: “Янгон хот”
  • Mongolian: “Янгон”
  • Navajo: “Anaʼí Ádaadinii”
  • Nepali: “रंगुन”
  • Nepali: “रङ्गुन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rangun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rangoon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yangon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yangôn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yangon”
  • Norwegian: “Yangon”
  • Novial: “Yangon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rangon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yangon”
  • Oriya: “ୟାଂଗୋନ”
  • Ossetian: “Янгон”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻရန်ႏတကွုန်ႏ”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਂਗੋਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੰਗੂਨ”
  • Persian: “رانگون”
  • Persian: “یانگون”
  • Polish: “Rangun”
  • Polish: “Yangon”
  • Polish: “Yangun”
  • Portuguese: “Rangoon”
  • Portuguese: “Rangum”
  • Portuguese: “Rangun”
  • Portuguese: “Yangon”
  • Portuguese: “Yangôn”
  • Romanian: “Rangoon”
  • Romanian: “Yangon”
  • Russia Buriat: “Янгон”
  • Russian: “Рангун” (historical)
  • Russian: “Янгон”
  • Sanskrit: “रङ्गून”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱮᱝᱜᱳᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Rangoon”
  • Scots: “Yangon”
  • Serbian: “Јангон”
  • Serbian: “Рангун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rangoon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rangun”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yangon”
  • Shan: “တႃႈၵုင်ႈ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “တႃႈၵုင်ႈ”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းတႃႈၵုင်ႈ”
  • Sicilian: “Rangoon”
  • Sicilian: “Yangon”
  • Silesian: “Rangun”
  • Sinhala: “යැන්ගොන්”
  • Slovak: “Rangún”
  • Slovenian: “Jangon”
  • Spanish: “Division de Yangon”
  • Spanish: “División de Yangon”
  • Spanish: “Rangoon”
  • Spanish: “Rangun”
  • Spanish: “Rangún”
  • Spanish: “Yangon”
  • Spanish: “Yangón”
  • Spanish: “Yangôn”
  • Swahili: “Rangoon”
  • Swahili: “Yangon”
  • Swedish: “Rangoon (regionhuvudort i Burma)”
  • Swedish: “Rangoon”
  • Swedish: “Yangon”
  • Tagalog: “Ranggon”
  • Tagalog: “Ranggun”
  • Tagalog: “Rangon”
  • Tagalog: “Rangoon”
  • Tagalog: “Yanggon”
  • Tagalog: “Yanggun”
  • Tagalog: “Yangon”
  • Tagalog: “Yangoon”
  • Tagalog: “Yangun”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥖᥣ ᥐᥧᥒᥲ, ᥝᥥᥒᥰ”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥝᥥᥒ ᥰᥖᥣ ᥐᥧᥒᥲ”
  • Tajik: “Рангун”
  • Tajik: “Янгон”
  • Tamil: “இரங்கூன்”
  • Tamil: “யங்கோன்”
  • Tamil: “யாங்கான்”
  • Tamil: “ரங்கூன்”
  • Telugu: “యాంగోన్”
  • Thai: “Yangon”
  • Thai: “กรุงย่างกุ้ง”
  • Thai: “ย่างกุ้ง”
  • Thai: “ย่่างกุ้ง”
  • Thai: “ร่างกุ้ง”
  • Tibetan: “ཡང་ཀོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཡང་ཀོང་”
  • Tibetan: “རན་གུང་”
  • Turkish: “Rangoon”
  • Turkish: “Yangon”
  • Turkmen: “Ýangon”
  • Udmurt: “Янгон”
  • Uighur: “Ran’gon”
  • Uighur: “Rangon”
  • Uighur: “رانگون”
  • Ukrainian: “Рангун”
  • Ukrainian: “Ранґун”
  • Ukrainian: “Янгон”
  • Ukrainian: “Янґон”
  • Urdu: “یانگون”
  • Uzbek: “Yangon”
  • Venetian: “Yangon”
  • Veps: “Jangon”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngưỡng Quang”
  • Vietnamese: “Răng Gun”
  • Vietnamese: “Răng-gun”
  • Vietnamese: “Rangoon”
  • Vietnamese: “Yangon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rangoon”
  • 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”
  • “Yangon”

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