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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]
For decades, the world has pitied and gawked at Yangon as a frozen-in-amber vision of the past — a city without ATMs or cell phones run by a brutal holdover from the totalitarian 20th century. Today, we must look to Yangon with engagement and urgency. For better or for worse, it will offer a glimpse of our common future.
6 days ago · Yangon, city, capital of independent Myanmar (Burma) from 1948 to 2006, when the government officially proclaimed the new city of Nay Pyi Taw (Naypyidaw) the capital of the country. Yangon is located in the southern part of the country on the east bank of the Yangon, or Hlaing, River (eastern mouth.
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May 14, 2017 · As the largest city and the former capital of Myanmar, Yangon is anything but lackluster. Yangon’s tourism industry today has flourished by leaps and bounds due to gradual developments and what intrigues people to this charming city is its ability to retain most of its cultural authenticity.
Apr 17, 2015 · Yangon’s greatest treasure was, after all, the sublime 344ft-tall Shwedagon pagoda on a hill overlooking the city, the most important religious landmark in the country. There was certainly no...
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Yangon , formerly Rangoon, City (pop., 2007 prelim.: 4,090,000), principal port, and historical capital of Myanmar (Burma), on the Yangon River. It was a fishing village until the present city was founded in the mid-1750s by King Alaungpaya; he developed it as a port.
Nov 13, 2014 · The transformation is more than cosmetic: Yangon is losing the mixed residential buildings and public spaces that once earned the city renown for its tolerance and cosmopolitan culture.
