Shwedagon Pagoda — Infobox Skyscraper caption=Shwedagon Pagoda brights up in gold and is often visited for its grand scale building name=Shwedagon Pagoda location=Yangon, Myanmar roof=convert|105|m|ft|0 antenna spire=convert|112.17|m|ft|0 built=6th century engineer … Wikipedia
Dagon — Also Lagon or Lagun, a Mon settlement established around the end of the first millennium CE at Singuttara Hill, site of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda (known in the Mon language as the Kyaik Lagun). Never a Mon royal city, its significance was… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Pegu (Bago) Yoma — A narrow range of hills or low lying mountains (yoma means mountain range in the Burmese [Myanmar] language) that runs north to south from Mount Popa near Myingyan in Mandalay Division to Singuttara (Theingottara) Hill, where the Shwe Dagon… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Shoe Question — As in other Asian countries, it is the custom in Burma for people to doff their shoes before entering a house; on pagoda platforms and other sites associated with Buddhism, neither footwear nor stockings may be worn. These customs became… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon — (Yangon) Burma s capital and largest city from the British colonial era until 2005. Its population was 2,513,123 when the last official census was taken in 1983, but at the beginning of the 21st century it was estimated at between 4.5 and 5 … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon (Yangon) Division — One of Burma s 14 states and divisions, it has an area of 10,171 square kilometers (3,927 square miles), making it the smallest of Burma s regional jurisdictions, and an estimated population in 2000 of 5.56 million (1983 census figure:… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
