Rangoon

Subject

Staff Only

Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Scope Note: Rangoon (inhabited place)

Coordinates: Lat: 16 47 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 16.7833 decimal degrees Long: 096 10 00 E degrees minutes Long: 96.1667 decimal degrees

Note: Commercial center & principal port of Myanmā; site of numerous notable pagodas including Sule & Botataung (both over 2000 years old), & Shwe Dagon; occupied by British 1824; severely damaged by earthquake & tidal wave 1930; further damage during WW II.

Names: Rangoon (preferred,C,V) Yandoon (C,V) Yangon (C,V) Yangôn (C,V) Rangun (C,V) Dagon (H,V) ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position: Hierarchy of World (facet) World (facet) Hierarchy of Asia (continent) .... Asia (continent) (P) Hierarchy of Myanmar (nation) ........ Myanmar (nation) (P) Hierarchy of Yangon (national division) ............ Yangon (national division) (P) Hierarchy of Rangoon (inhabited place) ................ Rangoon (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types: inhabited place (preferred, C) ............ since at least 6th cen. AD city (C) ............ founded by King Alaungpaya, 1755 national capital (C) regional capital (C) port (C) religious center (C) ............ Buddhist, with pagodas over 2000 years old commercial center (C) industrial center (C) university center (C)

Sources and Contributors: Dagon.......... [VP] .............. Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 533 .............. Times Atlas of World History (1989) 352 Rangoon.......... [VP Preferred] ................. Times Atlas of the World (1994) 162 ................. Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 192 Rangun.......... [VP] ................. Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-143 Yandoon.......... [VP] ................. Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 533 Yangon.......... [VP] ................. Times Atlas of the World (1994) 219 Yangôn.......... [VP] ................. Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 664 Subject: ..... [VP] .................. Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 664 .................. Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 533 .................. Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-143 .................. Times Atlas of the World (1994) 162; 219 .................. Times Atlas of World History (1989) 352 .................. Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 192 Note: English .......... [VP]