Yenangyaung (Burmese: ရေနံချောင်း; literally "stream of oil") is a city in the Magway Region of central Myanmar, located on the Irrawaddy River and 363 miles from Yangon. Until 1974, it remained the capital city of both Minbu Division (now Magway Division) and Yenangyaung District. The population of Yenanchaung was 45,120 according to the 2014 census, but it reached 49,938 in September 2020. This makes it the fourth-largest city in the Magway Region, after Pakokku, Magway and Aunglan. General Aung San received his secondary education in this city.
The Battle of Yenangyaung (Chinese: 仁安羌大捷; pinyin: Rén'ānqiāng Dàjié; lit. 'Great Victory at Yenangyaung') was fought in Burma (now Myanmar) from 16 to...
Yenangyaung (Burmese: ရေနံချောင်း; literally "stream of oil") is a city in the Magway Region of central Myanmar, located on the Irrawaddy River and 363...
Pakokku. The major cities of Magway Division are Magway, Pakokku, Aunglan, Yenangyaung, Taungdwingyi, Chauk, Minbu, Thayet and Gangaw. Magway Region sits approximately...
Yenangyaung Township (Burmese: ရေနံချောင်းမြို့နယ်) is a township of Magway District in the Magway Division of Myanmar. Yenangyaung is bordered on the...
The Yenangyaung University (Burmese: ရေနံချောင်းတက္ကသိုလ်) is a university, located in Yenangyaung, Magway Region, Myanmar. The Regional College of Yenangyaung...
superiority and fear". Crude oil production, an indigenous industry of Yenangyaung, was taken over by the British and put under Burmah Oil monopoly. British...
soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division. Japanese forces also achieved...
relief of 7,000 British forces trapped by the Japanese in the Battle of Yenangyaung. He then reconquered North Burma and re-established the land route to...
Burma discovered a flourishing oil extraction industry in the town of Yenangyaung in 1795. The area had hundreds of hand-dug oil wells under the hereditary...
Poongali Bridge) 18 Medium Regiment 22 Medium Regiment (Sittang and Yenangyaung) 23 Field Regiment (Ad Tecleasan and OP Hill) 24 Field Regiment (Self...
to join Burcorps around Prome in the Irrawaddy Valley and cover the Yenangyaung oilfields. On 26 March Burcorps was ordered to stage a demonstration...
on a wide front. The 28th East African Brigade made a feint towards Yenangyaung to distract the Japanese 72nd Brigade while another brigade attacked...
Government Technical Institute (Yenangyaung) YGTI (Burmese: အစိုးရစက်မှုလက်မှုသိပ္ပံ (ရေနံချောင်း)) is a college under the Department of Technical, Vocational...
Whampoa Military Academy, best known for his leadership in the Battle of Yenangyaung. Liu was born Liu Jishu (Chinese: 劉繼樞) in Renyi Town of Guiyang County...
Burma's own natural resources (which included some oil from fields around Yenangyaung, but also minerals such as cobalt and large surpluses of rice), but also...
primarily to obtain raw materials (which included oil from fields around Yenangyaung, minerals and large surpluses of rice), and to close off the Burma Road...
soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division, led by Sun Li-jen. Meanwhile...
prisoners and civilians were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division at Yenangyaung. 19 April 1942 The 113th Regiment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's...
to Myanmar documented a flourishing oil extraction industry based in Yenangyaung that, in 1795, had hundreds of hand-dug wells under production. Merkwiller-Pechelbronn...
soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division. The retreat was conducted in...
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