Yangon
Former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region
Also known as Yangon City · Rangoon City · Yangon Region
- Country
- Myanmar(since 1948)
- , British rule in Myanmar(1824–1948)
- Located in
- Population
- 6,874,000(2022)
- , 5,430,000(2016)
- , 7,360,703(2015)
- +1 more
- Area
- 576 km²
- Elevation
- 15 m
- Head of government
- Q133890407(since 2021)
- Founded
- 1035
- Postal code
- 11181
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
117 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Capital of
- Myanmar
1
Sources- 1.Stated in The World Factbookcia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/burmaRetrieved 2021-01-22
- Yangon Region
- British rule in Myanmar(until 1948)
- Union of Burma (1948–1962)(until 1962)
- Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma(until 1988)
- Myanmar
- Official name
- ရန်ကုန်
- Рангун(until 1989)
- Янгон(since 1989)
- Янгон(since 1989)
- Рангун(until 1989)
- Native label
- ရန်ကုန်
- Demonym
- Rangounaise applies to part: feminine singular
- Rangounais applies to part: masculine singular
- Jangonano
- Twinned administrative body
- Haikou(since 2017)
- Kunming(since 2008)
- Busan
- Fukuoka
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Kathmandu
- Nanning
- Quezon City
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- Hashtag
- Yangon
On other databases
59 identifiers linking Yangon across the web's reference databases
- ArchINFORM location ID101
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinejangonas
- BBC News topic IDc6mkkyy5vdgt
- BBC Things ID7194d0fb-e410-4563-81c3-b623373c644b
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11988812n
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDrangun
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf12006884
- Curlie IDRegional/Asia/Myanmar/States_and_Divisions/Yangon/
- De Agostini IDYangon
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Yangon
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDrangoon-yangon
- ERR keyword ID3785530
- FactGrid item IDQ90552
- FAST ID1208575
- Freebase ID/m/0fs54
- GeoNames ID1298824
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7002152
- GitHub topicyangon
- GND ID4133122-9
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDYangon
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4926796
- Grove Art Online IDT070740
- Hikr waypoint ID84184
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID66489
- IdRef ID027957160
- Interlingual Index IDi82702
- International Jewish Cemetery Project IDfar-east-a-southeast-asia/burma-myanmar/yangon
- J9U entity ID987007548062405171
- Larousse IDville/Rangoun/140324
- Lex IDYangon
- Libraries Australia ID35727247
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn80053296
- Libris-URIgdsvtt70094tdph
- Museum-digital place ID3421
- MusicBrainz area IDeedf4278-f084-4da4-9873-0aa4ca3c2f25
- National Library of Brazil ID000091439
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001143254
- NL CR AUT IDge679610
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1213069
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3966038
- OpenStreetMap relation ID6004094
- OpenWeatherMap city ID1298824
- Oxford Reference overview ID20110803125246715
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID43322
- Quora topic IDYangon
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)yangon
- RKD thesaurus ID8856
- SNARC IDQ45819
- Treccani IDyangon
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana IDrangoon
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10044332
- UN/LOCODEMMRGN
- VIAF cluster ID136635929
- Vikidia article IDfr:Rangoon
- Wellcome Collection concept IDqu7rdbfg
- Who's on First ID421173357
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID08733610-n
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJcBWQvQp3hBWCPrDJVgrq
- Yale LUX IDplace/301b44ec-2760-4326-8408-72413e86cb32
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