Toungoo (Burma)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
טונגו (בורמה)
Name (Latin)
Toungoo (Burma)
Other forms of name
Toṅʻ ṅū (Burma)
Ketumatī (Burma)
Ketumadi (Burma)
Coordinates
96.43333333 96.43333333 18.93333333 18.93333333 (gooearth )
E0962600 E0962600 N0185600 N0185600 (geonames )
Associated country
Burma
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 145541171
Wikidata: Q1193412
Library of congress: n 89249544
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 18°56ʹ00ʺN 096°26ʹ00ʺE)
  • Maṅʻʺ ta rāʺ Rvhe thīʺ nhaṅʻʹ Bhu raṅʻʹ noṅʻ, 1968:t.p. (Ketumatī Toṅʻ ṅū)
  • Lippincott (Toungoo)
  • Micropaedia(Ketumadi; Toungoo)

Wikipedia description:

Taungoo (Burmese: တောင်ငူမြို့, MLCTS: taung ngu mrui., pronounced [tàʊɰ̃ŋù mjo̰] Tauñngu myoú; S'gaw Karen: တီအူ), also spelled Toungoo and formerly Toung-ngú, is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west. Hanthawaddy United Football Club is based in Taungoo. In the 16th century it was the first capital of the Toungoo dynasty.

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