"Rangoon" redirects here. For other uses, see Rangoon (disambiguation).
Largest city of Myanmar (Burma)
City in Yangon Region, Myanmar
Yangon
ရန်ကုန်
Rangoon
City
Yangon City
Clockwise from top: Shwedagon Pagoda, aerial view of central Yangon, colonial-era buildings along Strand Road, the Karaweik at Kandawgyi Lake, Yangon City Hall, Yangon High Court
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Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်; pronounced[jàɰ̃.ɡòʊɰ̃]), formerly romanized as Rangoon,[4][5] is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the administrative functions to the purpose-built capital city of Naypyidaw in north central Myanmar.[6] With over five million people, Yangon is Myanmar's most populous city and its most important commercial centre.
Yangon boasts the largest number of colonial-era buildings in Southeast Asia,[7] and has a unique colonial-era urban core that is remarkably intact.[8] The colonial-era commercial core is centered around the Sule Pagoda, which is reputed to be over 2,000 years old.[9] The city is also home to the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda – Myanmar's most sacred and famous Buddhist pagoda.
Yangon suffers from deeply inadequate infrastructure, especially compared to other major cities in Southeast Asia, such as Jakarta, Bangkok or Hanoi. Though many historic residential and commercial buildings have been renovated throughout central Yangon, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be profoundly impoverished and lack basic infrastructure.[10]
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of Burmese script. Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်; pronounced [jàɰ̃.ɡòʊɰ̃]), formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest...
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Yangon. It is operated by the Yangon Region Transport Authority (YRTA) until the organisation was abolished on 20 May 2021 and reorganized as Yangon Region...
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