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58 Yangon and around
1 Indian Ocean and Ayeyarwady River, navigable for almost 1600km into the heart of the
country. The antique Mon riverside settlement was razed and a grandiose new urban
design laid out, based on the gridiron plan created by army engineer Alexander Fraser.
British rule
Following the conquest of Upper Burma in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885,
colonial Rangoon (as it was known by the British) became the undisputed economic
and commercial heart of Burma. Grandiose new buildings were raised in the
fashionable Neoclassical and Indo-Saracenic styles, new hospitals, schools and colleges
established, parks laid out, a railway constructed and Inya and Kandawgyi lakes created
to provide water for the new city. There was also substantial immigration to the new
city from other parts of the British Empire, notably India, giving the city a pronounced
subcontinental flavour which endures (in places) to this day.

Tharrawaddy Bago
N
HLAWGA Taukkyan Bago
NATIONAL War Cemetery
PARK Ngamoeyeik Creek
Htantabin
Hlawga
Lake
SHWEPYI
Hlaing River
THAR Ledaunggan
Aung Mingalar
Bus Station
Mezali MINGALADON Yangon
HLAING INSEIN International
THAR YAR Airport NORTH
SEE ‘INSEIN’ MAP
OKKALAPA
Pun Hlaing River
Kaba aye Bago River
Hlaing Thar Yar Pagoda
Bus Station SOUTH
OKKALAPA
Pun Hlaing Inya
golf Course Lake
BAHAN
Shwedagon
Pagoda
AHLONE Pazundaung Creek
SEE ‘GREATER YANGON THAKETA Thanlyin
YANGON’ MAP
AYEYARWADY STATE Twante Canal Kyaik
Seikgu
Dalah
Khauk
Maubin Twante Kanbe Yangon River Pagoda
Baundawgyoke Pyawbwe
Pagoda Banbwegon
Lake
YANGON Ye Le
Pagoda
REGION Kyauktan
Twante River Danoke
Kawhmu
0 10
kilometres
War Ba Lauk Thauk Yangon River
Yangon and around

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