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Pyay

Human settlement in Myanmar

Cityhuman settlement town in MyanmarQ691747

Also known as Prome · Pyè

Country: Myanmar
Located in: Pyay Township(since 1862)
, Prome Kingdom(1482–1542)
, Ava Kingdom(1364–1482)
+1 more
Population: 134,861(2014)
Elevation: 115 m

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Pyay, and formerly anglicised as Prome, is the principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar. Pyay is located on the bank of the Irrawaddy River, 260 km (160 mi) north-west of Yangon. It is an important trade center for the Ayeyarwady Delta, Central and Upper Myanmar and the Rakhine (Arakan) State. The British Irrawaddy Flotilla Company established the current town in the late 19th century on the Irrawaddy as a transshipment point for cargo between Upper and Lower Burma. Pyay is also the terminus of Yangon-Pyay Railway which was the first railway line in Burma (Myanmar), opening on 1 May 1877. The English novelist Jane Austen's brother Rear Admiral Charles Austen died here in 1852. Shin Raṭṭhasāra, a Buddhist monk and prominent classical poet during the Kingdom of Ava also died here in 1529 and a mausoleum was constructed to honor him.

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Capital of: Pyay Township
Pyay District

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18 identifiers linking Pyay across the web's reference databases

18.8200, 95.2156OpenStreetMap ↗

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