Pyapon
Sign in to savePyapon (; , ) is a town and seat of Pyapon District as well as Pyapon Township in the Ayeyarwady Region of Myanmar, along the Pyapon River, a distributary of the Ayeyarwady River. It is located about inland from the Andaman Sea, about south of the previous capital, Yangon. In 2023, it had a population of 47,082. It serves as a center for collecting rice from the surrounding agricultural areas, and is home to a diesel-run power plant, using equipment by the German firm Siemens.
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- Locality
- ဖျာပုံမြို့
- Region
- ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး
- Country
- မြန်မာ
- Population
- 47,082
- Timezone
- Asia/Yangon
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pyapon
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Myanmar
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Myanmar
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Pyapon District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Township
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Pyapon Township
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 10.75
- Settlement.population_total
- 47,082
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.elevation_ft
- 14
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 4.3
- Settlement.timezone
- Myanmar Standard Time
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Myanmar
- Located in
- Pyapon Township
- Population
- 76741
- Elevation
- 8
- Time zone
- UTC+06:30
- Image
- Kyonkadun house 2018.jpg
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- Pyapon
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- individualist anarchism
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Notable people
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Pyapon (; , ) is a town and seat of Pyapon District as well as Pyapon Township in the Ayeyarwady Region of Myanmar, along the Pyapon River, a distributary of the Ayeyarwady River. It is located about inland from the Andaman Sea, about south of the previous capital, Yangon. In 2023, it had a population of 47,082. It serves as a center for collecting rice from the surrounding agricultural areas, and is home to a diesel-run power plant, using equipment by the German firm Siemens.
Tourists and visitors to Pyapon cruise in the nearby backwaters where nearby mangroves are home to birds, crocodiles and, occasionally, dolphins.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pyapon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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