The city's population grew sharply after 1948 as many people (mainly, the indigenous Burmese) from other parts of the country moved into the newly built satellite towns of North Okkalapa, South Okkalapa, and Thaketa in the 1950s and East Dagon, North Dagon and South Dagon in the 1990s. In 2005 werd het aantal inwoners op 4.082.000 inwoners geschat en in 2013 lag dit aantal op 5.209.541. Most rent outside the centre and few can afford to rent such apartments.
Yangon is the most populous city by far in Myanmar.
All media is heavily regulated by the military government. The 40,000-seat Yangon is also home to annual the Myanmar Open golf tournament, and the Myanmar Open tennis tournament. Satellite television in Yangon, and in Burma, is very expensive as the government imposes an annual registration fee of one million Common facilities taken for granted elsewhere are luxury prized items in Yangon and Burma.
The price of a Yangon's property market is the most expensive in the country and beyond the reach of most Yangonites.
Many of the roads are in poor condition and not wide enough to accommodate an increasing number of cars.Motor transportation in Yangon is highly expensive for most of its citizens.
The roads running parallel west to east were the Strand Road, Merchant Road, Maha Bandula (née Dalhousie) Road, Anawrahta (Fraser) Road, and Bogyoke Aung San (Montgomerie) Road. The city hosted the 1961 and 1969 Yangon has a growing population of skateboarders, as documented in the films Altered Focus: Burma and Yangon is the country's main centre for trade, industry, real estate, media, entertainment and tourism. Yangon Region (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး; MLCTS: rankun tuing desa. This article was most recently revised and updated by
While Yangon is the country's hub for the movie, music, advertising, newspaper, and book publishing industries.
Manufacturing accounts for a sizeable share of employment. Many more South Asians were forced to leave during the 1960s by Ne Win's xenophobic government.Yangon was the centre of major anti-government protests in 1974, 1988 and 2007.
Among the old colonial structures of red brick are the Office of Ministers (formerly the Old Secretariat), the Yangon’s rice mills and sawmills located along the river are the largest in the country. Rangoon (2017), Indiase film uit 2017 Bekijk alle artikelen waarvan de titel begint met Rangoon of met Rangoon in de titel . Crab Rangoon, sometimes called crab puffs, crab rangoon puffs, or cheese wontons, are filled crisp dumpling appetizers served in American Chinese and, more recently, Thai restaurants.
Other options include karaoke bars and pub restaurants in Yangon Due to the problems of high inflation, the lack of high denomination notes, and the fact that many of the population do not have access to checks, or credit or debit cards, it is common to see citizens carrying a considerable amount of cash.As the city has the best sporting facilities in the country, most national-level annual sporting tournaments such as track and field, football, volleyball, tennis and swimming are held in Yangon.
Nearly all print media and industries are based out of Yangon. Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! Yangon, also called Rangoon, city, capital of independent Myanmar (Burma) from 1948 to 2006, when the government officially proclaimed the new city of Nay Pyi Taw (Naypyidaw) the capital of the country. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor and Kangana Ranautin lead roles. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. According to the 2014 census, the city had a population of 5.16 million.Yangon is the most ethnically diverse city in the country.