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Nay Pyi Taw
Capital of Naypyidaw Union Territory, Myanmar

Nay Pyi Taw

Naypyidaw, officially romanised as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar.

Plan a trip to Nay Pyi Taw→From Mandalay

The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory. It is unusual among Myanmar's cities in that it is an entirely planned city and not part of any state or region. The city, previously known only as Pyinmana District, officially replaced Yangon as the administrative capital of Myanmar on 6 November 2005; its official name was revealed to the public on Armed Forces Day, 27 March 2006.

Get in

Getting to Nay Pyi Taw

The tolled Yangon–Mandalay Expressway connects Yangon to NPT. It's 320 km (200 mi) long with a service complex containing a fuel station and a large, expensive (by local standards) restaurant just past the halfway point if you're coming from Yangon. There are several trains daily from Yangon and they take around nine hours.

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    Naypyitaw Central

    To handle increased traffic to the capital, the existing airport at Ela was upgraded to handle larger planes.

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    Naypyidaw International Airport

    Is now listed as a destination for all domestic airlines: Myanma(r) National Airways, Yangon Airways and KBZ Air.

See

Worth seeing

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    Defence Services Museum

    An enormous half open-air, half housed complex celebrating the country's military.

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    Gems Museum

    Three enormous sculptures depicting the three most important kings in Burmese history: Anawrahta, Bayinnaung and Alaungpaya U Aung Zeya.

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    National Herbal Park

    Exhibits of plants having medicinal applications from all of the major regions of Burma.

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    Naypyidaw Safari Park
  5. 05
    National Museum

    Opened in 2015, after the capital was moved from Yangon to Naypyidaw.

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    Uppatasanti Pagoda

    The pagoda, which houses a Buddha tooth relic from China, is nearly a replica of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon and stands 100 m high.

Do

Things to do

City Park (Behind the city hall). Park with a playground and water fountain complex, which hosts a musical light show every night. Golf. Naypyidaw has four golf courses, Nay Pyi Taw City Golf Course, Yaypyar Golf Course, Yan Aung Myin Golf Course and Royal Myanmar Golf Course. Ngalaik Lake Gardens (~10 km from Naypyidaw). A small water park along Ngalaik Dam, near Kyweshin Village on Ngalaik Lake.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Satori Japanese Restaurant Naypyitaw

    Myat Pan Thazin St, နေပြည်တော်,.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Jakub Hałun (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.