Lower Burma | |
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Country | Burma |
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The Lower Burma is a region of Burma.
Understand
Regions
- Ayeyarwady region - It occupies the Irrawaddy Delta on the Bay of Bengal
- Yangon region
- Bago region
Cities
- 1 Yangon – The largest city in Burma. It was the administrative and political capital of British Burma, then independent from 1815 to 2007.
- 2 Pegou (Bago) – Former capital of a Mon kingdom
- 3 Pathein – Capital of the Ayeyarwady region and second largest port in the delta after Rangoon
- 4 Prome (Pyay) – near the site of the ancient capital of the pyu kingdom of Sri Ksetra (VIIe to XIe century)
- 5 Taungû (Toungou)
- 6 Thanlyin – Old port linked to Rangoon by a bridge over the Bago
- 7 Twante