- Rangoon (Yangôn)
- city, S Myanmar; cap.; pop. 2,500,000.
Webster's Gazetteer. 2013.
Rangoon (Yangôn)
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Rangoon (Yangon) Division — One of Burma s 14 states and divisions, it has an area of 10,171 square kilometers (3,927 square miles), making it the smallest of Burma s regional jurisdictions, and an estimated population in 2000 of 5.56 million (1983 census figure:… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon (Yangon) Institute of Technology — (RIT) Originally the Department of Engineering at Rangoon (Yangon) University. A new campus at Gyogone, Insein Township, was constructed in 1958 1961 with assistance from the Soviet Union. RIT became completely independent of Rangoon… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon (Yangon) General Hospital Incident — (August 10, 1988) After the hospital staff hung signs in front of the colonial era building calling for an end to Tatmadaw shooting of demonstrators, army units fired into the hospital compound with automatic weapons, killing and wounding… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon (Yangon) University — Burma s oldest degreeconferring institution of higher education, formally established in 1920 by the British colonial government. The Rangoon University Act was controversial because the new institution had little autonomy and offered a… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon (Yangôn) — city, S Myanmar; cap.; pop. 2,500,000 … Webster's Gazetteer
Yangon — Rangoon Pour le film de John Boorman, voir Rangoon (film). Localisation de Rangoon … Wikipédia en Français
Rangoon — (Yangon) Burma s capital and largest city from the British colonial era until 2005. Its population was 2,513,123 when the last official census was taken in 1983, but at the beginning of the 21st century it was estimated at between 4.5 and 5 … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon — Pour le film de John Boorman, voir Rangoon (film). Rangoon … Wikipédia en Français
Yangon City Development Committee — (YCDC) In May 1990, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) established the YCDC as an agency on the same level as the Cabinet, exercising considerable autonomy. Its membership, numbering between 7 and 15, is appointed by the… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Rangoon Incident — On October 9, 1983, operatives from North Korea placed a bomb in the Martyrs Mausoleum north of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Rangoon (Yangon) that killed 21 people, including four ministers in the cabinet of the president of South Korea, Chon Doo… … Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
