Yangon

Yangon formerly referred to as Rangoon is the capital of the Yangon Region and commercial capital of Myanmar. Yangon served because the administrative capital of Myanmar until 2006, whilst the military government relocated the administrative capabilities to the purpose-built town of Naypyidaw in significant Myanmar. With over 7 million human beings, Yangon is Myanmar's largest city and its maximum critical business centre. Yangon boasts the most important quantity of colonial generation homes in Southeast Asia and has a unique colonial technology city core this is remarkably intact.

The colonial era industrial center is centred across the Sule Pagoda, which is reputed to be over 2,000 years antique. The metropolis is likewise home to the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda Myanmar's most sacred Buddhist pagoda. The mausoleum of the remaining Mughal Emperor is located in Yangon, wherein he have been exiled following the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Yangon became based as Dagon in the early 11th century through the Mon, who ruled Lower Burma at that point. Dagon was a small fishing village concentrated approximately the Shwedagon Pagoda. In 1755, King Alaungpaya conquered Dagon, renamed it Yangon and delivered settlements around Dagon.