1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Myanmar (Burma)
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Hlaingthaya—687,867, Asia/Yangon, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Hlaingthaya is GeoNames ID 8740157. Its recorded administrative path is Yangon (North) → Yangon → Myanmar (Burma), and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Hlaingthaya occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-01-03; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Hlaingthaya ranks 803 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 449. Its 687,867 population value is 0.64 times the 1,066,550 median for the country cohort and 0.68 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Hlaingthaya is rank 4 among the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Hlaingthaya's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Hlaingthaya's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Yangon at 10.74 km with 4,477,638 recorded people; Nay Pyi Taw at 321.978 km with 925,000 recorded people; Chiang Mai at 376.773 km with 127,240 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 366.033 km. Compared with Yangon, Hlaingthaya's recorded population is 0.15 times as large. Against Hlaingthaya, Yangon follows West Yangon District → Yangon → Myanmar (Burma) in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Myanmar (Burma) cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yangon identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Hlaingthaya's. Against Hlaingthaya, Nay Pyi Taw follows Nay Pyi Taw (South) → Nay Pyi Taw → Myanmar (Burma) in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Myanmar (Burma) cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yangon identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Hlaingthaya's. Against Hlaingthaya, Chiang Mai follows Amphoe Mueang Chiang Mai → Chiang Mai → Thailand in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Thailand cohort rather than Myanmar (Burma), uses Asia/Bangkok instead of Asia/Yangon, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Hlaingthaya's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 161 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hlaingthaya's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 8740157, the coordinate pair 16.8500 / 96.0667, country rank 4 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 1298824 at 10.74 km bind Hlaingthaya to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Hlaingthaya's reference point is 16.8500° north and 96.0667° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Yangon is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Hlaingthaya's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Hlaingthaya's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hlaingthaya's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hlaingthaya, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Hlaingthaya's closest other entries in this atlas are Yangon (10.74 km), Nay Pyi Taw (321.978 km), Chiang Mai (376.773 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-03; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.