rangoon in English

noun
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the former capital of Burma (Myanmar), a port in the Irrawaddy delta; population 4,088,000 (est. 2007). For centuries a Buddhist religious center, it is the site of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, built over 2,500 years ago. The modern city was established in the mid 19th century and was the capital from 1886 until it was replaced by Naypyidaw in 2005.

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1. Demonstrators from the Rangoon neighbourhoods converged in downtown Rangoon.

2. Beyond Rangoon: Burmese Cuisine

3. In the ministry in Rangoon, Burma, about 1957

4. We docked at Rangoon the next morning.

5. Risking a court-martial, he returned to Rangoon to join Chennault.

6. Rangoon is surrounded on three sides by water.

7. The Delta towns, and even Rangoon, came under threat.

8. They brought Thant to Rangoon to lead the Educational Reorganizing Committee.

9. Nilar Biryani, Yangon (Rangoon): See 263 unbiased reviews of Nilar Biryani, rated 4 of 5 on Tripadvisor and ranked #59 of 1,102 restaurants in Yangon (Rangoon).

10. After a voyage of four days , the state prisoners were landed in Rangoon .

11. In Yangon (Rangoon), prostitution often occurs in hotels that also operate as brothels.

12. State-run Radio Rangoon reported that 1,451 "looters and disturbance makers" had been arrested.

13. She escorted troopship convoys from Saigon to Rangoon through the remainder of March.

14. Its ancestral enterprise, Burmah Oil Company, formerly Rangoon Oil Company in the British Empire, was established in the middle of the nineteenth century.In 1874, the Rangoon Oil Company was registered as a joint-stock

15. He did not retire into a monastery but lived in Rangoon as a layman, under constant police surveillance.

16. The destroyer cruised from Hong Kong to Rangoon, Burma, and Calcutta, India, guarding the flight and maintaining radio communications.

17. General Archibald Wavell, the commander-in-chief of the ABDA Command, nevertheless ordered Rangoon to be held.

18. On 10 August, soldiers fired into Rangoon General Hospital, killing nurses and doctors tending to the wounded.

19. Rangoon reacted to the charges by organising a vehement press campaign and restricting imports from its neighbour.

20. Fully ordained sometime prior to 1899, he began work as a teacher (probably in the Tavoy monastery in Rangoon).

21. Many students, sympathisers and riot police died throughout the month as the protests spread throughout Burma from Rangoon.

22. Favorites include Copycat Texas Roadhouse Steak Rub and Rolls, Olive Garden Alfredo Sauce and Salad Dressing, and more! Crab Rangoon Recipe

23. He was a founding member of the Burma Research Society and had helped establish The Sun (Thuriya) newspaper in Rangoon.

24. Today’s capital, Yangon (officially known as Rangoon until 1989), is a lively city of over three million, bustling with tooting cars, buses, and open-sided taxis.

25. From 12 June to 2 July 1924 she was at Rangoon, Burma, and Calcutta, India, delivering gas and oil for a round-the-world flight of Army planes.

26. Other articles where Bassein River is discussed: Irrawaddy River: Physiography: …of the delta is the Bassein (Pathein) River, while the easternmost stream is the Yangon River, on the left bank of which stands Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon (Rangoon)

27. This delta, which includes the districts of Bassein, Myaungmya, Thongwa, Henzada, Hantha waddy, Tharrawaddy, Pegu and Rangoon town, consists almost entirely of a rich alluvial deposit, and the whole area, which between Cape Negrais and Elephant Point is 137 m.

28. From the United Nations headquarters in New York where he was laid in state, Thant's body was flown back to Rangoon, but no guard of honour or high-ranking officials were on hand at the airport when the coffin arrived except for U Aung Tun, deputy minister of education, who was subsequently dismissed from office.