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Pyinmana

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Pyinmana (pyĭn`mänä'), town and township (1983 pop. 52,962), S central Myanmar, 55 mi (89 km) NNW of Toungoo Toungoo or Taungu , town, S Myanmar, on the Sittoung River. It is a railway junction. From the late 14th cent. it was the center of one of the three chief states of Myanmar; in the late 16th cent.
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. Pyinmana is located on Yangon–Mandalay railroad in a mountainous, forested region. Sugarcane is raised in the surrounding area and processed in the town. A forestry college is there. The forces of nationalist leader Aung San were based in Pyinmana during World War II, and the area was later a Communist insurgent stronghold. In late 2005 Myanmar's military government announced that the capital would be moved from Yangon Yangon , formerly Rangoon , city (1983 pop. 2,458,712), capital of Myanmar and of Yangon div., S central Myanmar, on the Yangon River (a mouth of the Ayeyarwady) near its entrance into the Gulf of Martaban.
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 to an extensive compound outside the town, and began transferring several government ministries to the new administrative capital, which was named Naypyidaw in 2006.


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