Yangon
Rangoon | |
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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 Location of Yangon, Myanmar  Yangon Yangon (Southeast Asia)  Yangon Yangon (Asia) | |
| Coordinates (Asia/Yangon): 16°47′42″N 96°09′36″E / 16.795°N 96.160°E | |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Region | Yangon Region |
| Settled | c. 1028–1043 CE |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Bo Htay[citation needed] |
| Area | |
| • Urban | 598.75 km2 (231.18 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 10,170 km2 (3,930 sq mi) |
| • Rank | division |
| Population | |
| • Rank | 1st in Myanmar |
| • Urban | 5,160,512 |
| • Urban density | 8,600/km2 (22,000/sq mi) |
| • Rural | 2,200,191 |
| • Metro | 7,360,703 (Yangon Region) |
| • Ethnicities | List of ethnicities |
| • Religions | List of religions
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| Demonym | Yangonite |
| GDP | |
| • Metro | US$ 10.7 billion (2016) |
| Time zones | UTC+06:30 (Asia/Yangon or Asia/Rangoon) |
| UTC+06:30 (Myanmar Time) | |
| Area code | 01 |
| Geocode | Yangon |
| ISO 3166 code | MM06 |
| Vehicle registration | YGN |
| Website | yangon |
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Yangon,[a] formerly romanized as Rangoon,[4][5] is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. 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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