Yangon

"Rangoon" redirects here. For other uses, see Rangoon (disambiguation).

This article is about the largest city in Myanmar. For other uses, see Yangon (disambiguation).

Yangon ရန်ကုန် Rangoon
City
Yangon City
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Yangon Location of Yangon, Myanmar Yangon Yangon (Southeast Asia) Yangon Yangon (Asia)
Coordinates (Asia/Yangon): 16°47′42″N 96°09′36″E
Country	Myanmar
Region	Yangon Region
Settled	c. 1028–1043 CE
Government
• Mayor	U Myo Myint Aung
Area
• Urban	598.75 km2 (231.18 sq mi)
• Metro	10,170 km2 (3,930 sq mi)
• Rank	division
Population  (2014 Census)
• Rank	1st in Myanmar
• Urban	5,160,512
• Urban density	8,618.8/km2 (22,323/sq mi)
• Rural	2,200,191
• Metro	7,360,703 (Yangon Region)
• Metro density	723.8/km2 (1,875/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	List of ethnicities Bamar Burmese Chinese Burmese Indians Chin Rakhine Mon Karen Shan Kayah Kachin
• Religions	List of religions Buddhism 91% Islam 4.7% Christianity 3.2% Hinduism 1.0% Others 0.1%
Demonym	Yangonite
GDP
• Metro	US$ 10.7 billion (2016)
Time zones	UTC+06:30 (Asia/Yangon or Asia/Rangoon)
	UTC+06:30 (Myanmar Time)
Area code	01
Geocode	Yangon
ISO 3166 code	MM06
Vehicle registration	YGN
Website	yangon.gov.mm

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Yangon, also romanized in English as Rangoon, is the capital city of the Yangon Region and the most populous city of Myanmar. Yangon was the capital city of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the military government relocated the administrative functions to the purpose-built capital city of Naypyidaw in north central Myanmar. With over five million people, Yangon is Myanmar's most populous city and its most important commercial centre.

Yangon boasts the largest number of colonial-era buildings in Southeast Asia, and has a unique colonial-era urban core that is remarkably intact. The colonial-era commercial core is centred around the Sule Pagoda, which is reputed to be over 2,000 years old. The city is also home to the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda – Myanmar's most sacred and famous Buddhist pagoda.

Yangon suffers from profoundly inadequate infrastructure, especially compared to other major cities in Southeast Asia, such as Jakarta, Bangkok or Hanoi. Especially rail transport is lacking. Though many historic residential and commercial buildings have been renovated throughout central Yangon, most satellite towns that ring the city remain chronically impoverished and lack basic infrastructure.