Largest Cities By Population
| 2006 Rank | City | 1983 Census | 2006 Estimate | State/Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Yangon (Rangoon) | 2,513,023 | 4,572,948 | Yangon Region |
| 2. | Mandalay | 532,949 | 1,237,028 | Mandalay Region |
| 3. | Naypyidaw (Nay Pyi Taw) * | 0 | 924,608 | Naypyidaw Union Territory |
| 4. | Mawlamyaing | 219,961 | 451,011 | Mon State |
| 5. | Bago | 150,528 | 248,899 | Bago Region |
| 6. | Pathein | 144,096 | 241,624 | Ayeyarwady Region |
| 7. | Monywa | 106,843 | 185,783 | Sagaing Region |
| 8. | Meiktila | 96,492 | 181,744 | Mandalay Region |
| 9. | Sittwe | 107,621 | 181,172 | Rakhine State |
| 10. | Mergui | 88,600 | 177,961 | Tanintharyi Region |
| 11. | Taunggyi | 108,231 | 162,396 | Shan State |
* Naypyidaw had not yet been built at time of 1983 census.
Read more about this topic: List Of Cities In Burma
Famous quotes containing the words largest, cities and/or population:
“Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don’t want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“This was the Eastham famous of late years for its camp- meetings, held in a grove near by, to which thousands flock from all parts of the Bay. We conjectured that the reason for the perhaps unusual, if not unhealthful development of the religious sentiment here, was the fact that a large portion of the population are women whose husbands and sons are either abroad on the sea, or else drowned, and there is nobody but they and the ministers left behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)