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 Nay Pyi Taw—925,000, 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 Nay Pyi Taw is GeoNames ID 6611854. Its recorded administrative path is Nay Pyi Taw (South) → Nay Pyi Taw → Myanmar (Burma), and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Nay Pyi Taw 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 2025-05-08; 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, Nay Pyi Taw ranks 596 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 347. Its 925,000 population value is 0.87 times the 1,066,550 median for the country cohort and 0.92 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Nay Pyi Taw is rank 3 among the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Nay Pyi Taw's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Nay Pyi Taw's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Mandalay at 247.981 km with 1,208,099 recorded people; Chiang Mai at 317.912 km with 127,240 recorded people; Hlaingthaya at 321.978 km with 687,867 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 73.997 km. Compared with Mandalay, Nay Pyi Taw's recorded population is 0.77 times as large. Against Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay follows Mandalay District → Mandalay Region → Myanmar (Burma) in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Myanmar (Burma) cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yangon identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Nay Pyi Taw's. Against Nay Pyi Taw, Chiang Mai follows Amphoe Mueang Chiang Mai → Chiang Mai → Thailand in the source. Its point has lower 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 capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Nay Pyi Taw's. Against Nay Pyi Taw, Hlaingthaya follows Yangon (North) → Yangon → Myanmar (Burma) in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Myanmar (Burma) cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yangon identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Nay Pyi Taw's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,063 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nay Pyi Taw's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. 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 6611854, the coordinate pair 19.7450 / 96.1297, country rank 3 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 1311874 at 247.981 km bind Nay Pyi Taw to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nay Pyi Taw's reference point is 19.7450° north and 96.1297° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Yangon is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Nay Pyi Taw's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Nay Pyi Taw's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nay Pyi Taw's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nay Pyi Taw, 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
Nay Pyi Taw's closest other entries in this atlas are Mandalay (247.981 km), Chiang Mai (317.912 km), Hlaingthaya (321.978 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-08; 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.