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Fun fact 5 about Yangon

ShwedagonPagoda
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Yangon is home to the Shwedagon Pagoda Festival, which attracts thousands of pilgrims each year.

Yangon
Myanmar
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Yangon

Myanmar

Country
Myanmar
Population
7.4M
Coordinates
16.87, 96.20
43rd most populous city in the world

Yangon, sometimes romanised in English as Rangoon, is the capital city of the Yangon Region and the most populous city of Myanmar.

From the “Demographics” section

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Photo: Jean-Marie Hullot · CC BY 3.0