page_title: Yangon
section_title: Notable sites
hierarchical_section_title: Yangon / Notable sites
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Katedra Najświętszej Maryi Panny. Rangun, Mjanma. English: St. Mary's Cathedral. Yangon, Myanmar.
context_page_description: Yangon, also known as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the administrative functions to the purpose-built capital city of Naypyidaw in north central Myanmar. With over 5 million people, Yangon is Myanmar's most populous city and its most important commercial centre.
  Yangon boasts the largest number of colonial-era buildings in Southeast Asia, and has a unique colonial-era urban core that is remarkably intact. The colonial-era commercial core is centered around the Sule Pagoda, which is reputed to be over 2,000 years old. The city is also home to the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda – Myanmar's most sacred Buddhist pagoda.
  Yangon suffers from deeply inadequate infrastructure, especially compared to other major cities in Southeast Asia. Though many historic residential and commercial buildings have been renovated throughout central Yangon, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be profoundly impoverished and lack basic infrastructure.
caption: St Mary's Cathedral at the corner of Bo Aung Kyaw Road
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