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Township of Yangon, Myanmar

Mayangon Township

Mayangon Township is located in the northern part of Yangon.

Mayangon Township
Mayangon Township · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mayangon Township is located in the northern part of Yangon. The township comprises ten wards, and shares borders with Insein Township and Mingaladon Township in the north, North Dagon Township, North Okkalapa Township, South Okkalapa Township and Yankin Township in the east, the Hlaing river, Hlaing Township and Hlaingthaya Township in the west, and Kamayut Township and Bahan Township in the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mayangon Township

6 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
    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.

    3.6 km · medical University · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.7 km · university in Myanmar · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Yangon Drugs Elimination Museum

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

    3.4 km · museum in Myanmar · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Yangon Institute of Marine Technology

    The Myanmar Mercantile Marine College, located in Yangon, Myanmar, is a public institute offering mainly two-year diplomas in mercantile nautical technologies. The institute also offers four-year bachelor's degrees and post-graduate diplomas in select fields.

    2.6 km · higher education institute in Yangon, Myanmar · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Salin Stadium

    Salin Stadium (Burmese: စလင်း အားကစားကွင်း is a multi-use stadium, located in Yangon, Myanmar. The 3,000-seat stadium is smaller but more up-to-date than Aung San Stadium, and is the venue of choice for most national and international level football and track and field competitions.

    2.7 km · sports stadium in Yangon, Myanmar · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Info Myanmar University

    Info Myanmar University is a private university in Yangon, Myanmar. Info Myanmar College, the computing arm of IMCS Co., Ltd.

    3.3 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 Mayangon Township

Airports
Yangon (RGN), 11 km
  • Naypyitaw → Mayangon Township
    380 km · quickest by road, 7h 16m · $35–49
  • Mandalay → Mayangon Township
    568 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · $190–280
  • Chiang Mai → Mayangon Township
    368 km · quickest by air, 4h 45m · ฿2,500–3,880
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mayangon 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 Mayangon 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

    376 km
  4. 04
    BaganMM

    12 ways of moving, 50 sources

    501 km
  5. 05
    AyutthayaTH

    9 ways of moving, 9 sources

    551 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mayangon Township

Mayangon Township is 5 km from Hlaingthaya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.