Yangon
Yangon, also romanized in English as Rangoon, is the capital city of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar.
Yangon, also romanized in English as Rangoon, is the capital city of the Yangon Region and the largest 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.
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Worth seeing in and around Yangon
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Yangon
- Airports
- Yangon (RGN), 13 km
- Stations
- Yangon Central railway station, 1.5 km
- Naypyitaw → Yangon330 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · $32–44
- Mandalay → Yangon575 km · quickest by air, 5h 29m · $210–310
- Chiang Mai → Yangon372 km · quickest by air, 5h · ฿2,520–3,900
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Yangon
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Yangon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAncient buses ferry passengers to their aircraft.
- Get in150 years ago, boats were the way to get to places from Yangon and IWT (Inland Water Transport) passenger ferries still ply the major rivers.
- Get inThe ferry leaves Pyay every Friday at 06:30 and arrives in Yangon on Sunday at 21:40.
- Get inA luxury ferry (the Delta Queen) recalls the colonial era on the Yangon-Pathein route (about 20 hr, US$170/person).
- Get inThe IWT ferry to Pathein takes 15 hr for the overnight trip (US$35/10).
From Wikivoyage: Yangon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Yangon
Yangon is 12 km from Hlaingthaya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Thanlyincity in Yangon Region, Myanmar9.5 km
- Ahlon Townshiptownship of Yangon in Myanmar3.7 km
- Dagon Townshiptownship of Yangon in Myanmar1.4 km
- Kyauktada Townshiptownship of Yangon in Myanmar2.3 km
- Kyimyindaing Townshiptownship of Yangon in Myanmar4.8 km
- Lanmadaw Townshiptownship of Yangon in Myanmar2.6 km