Myanmar73, Yangon

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Yangon (also known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") is a former capital of Myanmar and the capital of Yangon Region. Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over five million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial centre.Although Yangon's infrastructure is undeveloped compared to those of other major cities in Southeast Asia, it has the largest number of colonial buildings in the region today. While many high-rise residential and commercial buildings have been constructed or renovated throughout downtown and Greater Yangon in the past two decades, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be deeply impoverished.

Airport

Airport

City Hall

City Hall

City Hall

City Hall

The City Hall building is considered a fine example of syncretic Burmese architecture, featuring traditional tiered roofs called pyatthat, and was designed by Burmese architect U Tin, who also designed Central Railway Station, Construction began in 1926 and ended in 1936. The Independence Monument base

Yangon's city hall, High Court, Independence Monument, Sule Pagoda

Yangon's High Court Building

Yangon's High Court Building

High Court, Yangon

Yangon Kaba Aye Pagoda. The pagoda was built in 1952 by U Nu in preparation for the Sixth Buddhist Council that he held from 1954-1956

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda This is one of the biggest marble Buddha Images in Myanmar with a height of 37ft (11m) and a weight of weighs over 600 tons. The classical name of this Image is Lawkachantha Abaya Labamuni, meaning World Peace and Prosperity.

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda 

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda 

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda Kyauktawgyi Pagoda 

Yangon Independence Monument, High Court

Yangon Centerpoint Towers

Old Yangon at Kon Zay Dan street

Yangon Bargayar Road – Koe Htat Gyi PagodaThe Koe Htat Kyi (or) the nine storey pagoda is another enormous Buddha Image in Yangon.

Colonial firehouse still in operation

Yangon's Basic Education High School No. 1 Lanmadaw

Yangon's Basic Education High School No. 2 Latha

Yangon University of Medicine Yangon General Hospital

City ContrastSule Pagoda

Independence Monument and Sule Pagoda

Holy Trinity Cathedral, 1886 (spire added 1913)

Holy Trinity Cathedral, 1886 (spire added 1913)

Holy Trinity Cathedral is the primary Anglican cathedral in Myanmar

Mahabandoola Road, Yangon

Yangon aerial view

The Maha Wizaya Pagoda was built on the Dhammarakkhita (Guardian of the Law) Hill which faces the famous Shwedagon Pagoda

The Maha Wizaya Pagoda

The Maha Wizaya Pagoda

The Maha Wizaya Pagoda

Rush Hour, Yangon

The Bengali Sunni Jameh Mosque, built in the colonial era, one of many mosques in Yangon

Modern Yangon

Kheng Hock Keong, Chinese Buddhist and Taoist temple dedicated to the

Chinese goddess Mazu in Yangon

Kheng Hock Keong, Chinese Buddhist and Taoist temple

Kheng Hock Keong, Chinese Buddhist and Taoist temple

Kheng Hock Keong, Mazu Shrine

Immanuel Baptist Church is located in the center of Yagon just next to the Mahabandoola Garden near city hall. Founded in 1885 but destroyed during the World War II; the present Church was rebuilt in 1952

Yangon Convocation Hal

Yangon Downtown

Yangon Excel Treasure Tower, Kabayye Pagoda Road

Yangon formerly St. Paul's English High School.

Yangon Htaukkyant war cemetery.

The pagoda was buil with cash donations contributed by the people of Myanmar and Buddhis donors of entire world.

Sacred Replica Tooth Relic was enshrined in the Swe Taw Myat Pagoda on Dhammapala Hillock in Mayangone Township, Yangon

Swe Taw Myat Pagoda

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