Yayway Cemetery

Yayway Cemetery
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CountryMyanmar
Coordinates16°55′56″N 96°09′57″E / 16.93233°N 96.16585°E / 16.93233; 96.16585
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Find a GraveYayway Cemetery

Yayway Cemetery (Burmese: ရေဝေးသုသာန်, also spelt Yeway Cemetery) is a cemetery located in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, Myanmar.[1] The cemetery is the final resting place of many prominent Burmese. The cemetery is maintained by the Yangon City Development Committee's environmental maintenance department.[2] Yayway Cemetery also consists of various ethnic and religious cemeteries, including those of the Burmese Indians, Sino-Burmese (Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Yunnanese), Karen, Japanese, Baháʼís, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Parsis, and Jews.[2]

  1. ^ Nyein Ei Ei Htwe (2 November 2009). "Writer Ni Ko Ye dies of heart attack". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b "ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ကြီးကို သာယာလှပအောင် ကြိုးစား ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ဝန်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Newsweek (in Burmese). 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.