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Bago Region
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administrative region of Myanmar
Key facts
- Burmese
- pai: hku: tuing: desa. kri:
- Country
- Myanmar
- Region
- Lower
- Capital
- Bago
- Chief minister
- Myo Swe Win
- Cabinet
- Bago Region Government
- Legislature
- Bago Region Hluttaw
- Judiciary
- Bago Region High Court
- Total
- 39,402.3 km (15,213.3 sq mi)
- Rank
- 6th
- Highest elevation yomakyo
- 1,889 m (6,198 ft)
- Density
- 123.530/km (319.942/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Bagoan
- Ethnicities
- Bamar , Kayin , Mon , Shan , Indians , Chinese , Pa'O
- Religions
- Buddhism 93.5%, Christianity 2.9%, Hinduism 2.0%, Islam 1.3%, Others 0.3%
- Time zone
- UTC+06:30 ( MST )
- Hdi 2017
- 0.547 , low · 9th
- Website
- bagoregion .gov .mm
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home - ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး အစိုးရအဖွဲ့
ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့နှင့် ပတ်သက်သော အချက်အလက်များ ကြည့်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။ This is the official website of Bago Region Government Office
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Myanmar
- Located in
- British rule in Myanmar
- Capital
- Bago
- Population
- 4453691
- Area
- 39404.43
- Elevation
- 153
- Shares border with
- Magway Region
- Official website
- bagoregion.gov.mm
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bago Region
- female population
- 2545035
- male population
- 2322338
- Commons category
- Bago Region
- language used
- Mon
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Bago Region (Burmese: ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, pronounced [bəɡó táɪɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí]; formerly Pegu Division and Bago Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the southern central part of the country. It is bordered by Magway Region and Mandalay Region to the north; Kayin State, Mon State and the Gulf of Martaban to the east; Yangon Region to the south and Ayeyarwady Region and Rakhine State to the west. It is located between 46°45'N and 19°20'N and 94°35'E and 97°10'E. It has a population of 4,867,373 (2014).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bago Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.