1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Myanmar (Burma)
Compare this sourced profile of Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Yangon—4,477,638, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Yangon is GeoNames ID 1298824. Its recorded administrative path is West Yangon District → Yangon → Myanmar (Burma), and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Yangon 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 2026-04-14; 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, Yangon ranks 70 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 45. Its 4,477,638 population value is 4.20 times the 1,066,550 median for the country cohort and 4.44 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Yangon is rank 1 among the 4 selected Myanmar (Burma) entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Yangon's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Yangon's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Hlaingthaya at 10.74 km with 687,867 recorded people; Nay Pyi Taw at 326.894 km with 925,000 recorded people; Chiang Mai at 372.011 km with 127,240 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 361.271 km. Compared with Hlaingthaya, Yangon's recorded population is 6.51 times as large. Against Yangon, Hlaingthaya follows Yangon (North) → Yangon → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Yangon's. Against Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw follows Nay Pyi Taw (South) → Nay Pyi Taw → 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 capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Yangon's. Against Yangon, 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Yangon's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 161 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Yangon'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 1298824, the coordinate pair 16.8053 / 96.1561, country rank 1 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 8740157 at 10.74 km bind Yangon to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Yangon's reference point is 16.8053° north and 96.1561° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Yangon is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Yangon's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Yangon's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Yangon's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Yangon, 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
Yangon's closest other entries in this atlas are Hlaingthaya (10.74 km), Nay Pyi Taw (326.894 km), Chiang Mai (372.011 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.