Yangon (mmr)

Yangon

Yangon ranks 1,987th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mytilene, Huesca, and Bray, County Wicklow. Memorable people born in Yangon include Aung San Suu Kyi, Peter Townsend, and Htin Kyaw. Memorable people who died in Yangon include Aung San, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Ne Win. Yangon has been the birth place of many politicians and actors and the death place of many politicians and mafiosos. Yangon is located in Myanmar (Burma).

Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar 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. Read more on Wikipedia