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Township of Yangon in Yangon Region, Myanmar

Kyimyindaing Township

Kyimyindaing Township is located in the western part of Yangon, and shares borders with Kamayut Township in the north, the Yangon River and Twante Township in the west, Sanchaung Township in the east, and Ahlon Township in the south.

Kyimyindaing Township
Kyimyindaing Township · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kyimyindaing Township is located in the western part of Yangon, and shares borders with Kamayut Township in the north, the Yangon River and Twante Township in the west, Sanchaung Township in the east, and Ahlon Township in the south. It consists of 21 wards.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kyimyindaing Township

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.

  1. 01
    Shwedagon Pagoda

    The Shwedagon Pagoda (Burmese: ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား, MLCTS: shwe ti. gon bhu.

    2.7 km · religious building in Yangon, Myanmar · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Yangon

    The University of Yangon is a public university in Yangon, Myanmar. Located in Kamayut Township on the southwestern bank of Inya Lake, it is the country's oldest university and celebrated its centenary in 2020.

    3.2 km · University in Myanmar · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Yangon Zoological Gardens

    The Yangon Zoo is the oldest and the second largest zoo in Myanmar. Located immediately north of downtown Yangon near Kandawgyi Lake, the 70-acre recreational park also includes a museum of natural history, an aquarium and an amusement park.

    4 km · zoo · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    University of Medicine 1, Yangon

    The University of Medicine 1, Yangon ရန်ကုန် [sʰé tɛʔkəθò tɪʔ ]; formerly the Institute of Medicine 1), located in Yangon, is the oldest medical school in Myanmar. The university offers M.B.B.S. degrees and graduate degrees in medical science.

    2.1 km · medical University · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    National Theatre of Yangon

    The National Theatre of Yangon, located in Yangon, is a national theatre of Myanmar. The theatre is used for cultural exchange programs with foreign countries, for departmental workshops, religious ceremonies, prize giving ceremonies, performing arts competitions, and for musical stage shows.

    3.4 km · myanmar's national theatre · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Singuttara Hill

    Siṅguttara Hill is a small hill in Yangon, Myanmar, crowned by the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most famous pagoda in the country.

    2.7 km · hill in Myanmar · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    University of Computer Studies, Yangon

    The University of Computer Studies, Yangon, located on the outskirts of Yangon in Hlawga, is the leading IT and computer science university of Myanmar. The university, administered by the Ministry of Education, offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in computer science and technology.

    3.2 km · university in Yangon, Myanmar · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    University of Foreign Languages, Yangon

    The Yangon University of Foreign Languages, also the University of Foreign Languages, Yangon, located in Yangon, is a university for the study of foreign languages in Myanmar. It is one of the two language universities in Myanmar alongside Mandalay University of Foreign Languages.

    3 km · Asian and European language university in Myanmar · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Yangon Drugs Elimination Museum

    The Drug Elimination Museum is a museum in Yangon, Myanmar. It opened with an official ceremony on 26 June 2001.

    1.6 km · museum in Myanmar · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Yangon University of Education

    The Yangon University of Education, located in Kamayut, Yangon, is the premier university of education in Myanmar. Primarily a teacher training college, it offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in education to the country's prospective primary, secondary and tertiary school teachers.

    1.9 km · university in Myanmar · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Kyimyindaing Township

Airports
Yangon (RGN), 12 km
  • Naypyitaw → Kyimyindaing Township
    329 km · quickest by road, 6h 13m · $32–44
  • Mandalay → Kyimyindaing Township
    574 km · quickest by air, 5h 26m · $210–300
  • Chiang Mai → Kyimyindaing Township
    374 km · quickest by air, 4h 57m · ฿2,520–3,900
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kyimyindaing Township

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 Kyimyindaing Township. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    BagoMM

    11 ways of moving, 25 sources

    70 km
  2. 02
    PaiTH

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    375 km
  3. 03
    Chiang MaiTH

    12 ways of moving, 37 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    BaganMM

    12 ways of moving, 50 sources

    503 km
  5. 05
    AyutthayaTH

    9 ways of moving, 9 sources

    548 km

If you know how people move in Kyimyindaing Township – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kyimyindaing Township

Kyimyindaing Township is 3 km from Yangon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.