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Yangon is located in Lower Burma (Myanmar) at the convergence of the Yangon and Bago Rivers about 30 km (19 mi) away from the Gulf of Martaban at 16°48' North, 96°09' East (16.8, 96.15). Its standard time zone is UTC/GMT +6:30 hours. 23 meters above sea level.
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Rangoon became the capital of British Burma and an important...
- Nyaungyan Period
Britain made Burma a province of India in 1886 with the...
- Myanmar
Rangun (birm. ရန်ကုန် / j à ɴ ɡ ò ʊ ɴ /) – największe miasto Mjanmy, stolica kraju od 1886 do 2006. Miasto położone we wschodniej części delty Irawadi, nad rzeką Rangun, w prowincji Rangun. Ludność: 7,360 mln mieszkańców (2014). Główna ulica miasta to Anawrahta Road. Centrum gospodarcze i kulturalne kraju. Międzynarodowy port lotniczy – Mingaladon.
Yangon Region [4] (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး; MLCTS: rankun tuing desa. kri:, pronounced [jàɰ̃ɡòʊɰ̃ táɪɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí]; formerly Rangoon Division and Yangon Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar.Located in central Myanmar, the region is bordered by Bago Region to the north and east, the Gulf of Martaban to the south, and ...
Rangoon became the capital of British Burma and an important port between Calcutta and Singapore. Burmese resentment was strong, and was vented in violent riots that periodically paralysed Rangoon until the 1930s. [ 78 ]
In 1938, oilfield workers on strike hiked all the way from the oilfields of Chauk and Yenangyaung in central Burma to Rangoon to establish a strike camp at the Shwedagon Pagoda. This strike, supported by the public as well as students and came to be known as the '1300 Revolution' after the Burmese calendar year, was broken up by the police who ...
Britain made Burma a province of India in 1886 with the capital at Rangoon. Traditional Burmese society was drastically altered by the demise of the monarchy and the separation of religion and state.
Rangun [ʁaŋˈɡuːn] (offiziell Yangon [jaŋˈgɔn], englisch Rangoon) ist eine Stadt in Myanmar und Hauptstadt des Verwaltungsbezirks Yangon-Division.
