Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the capital to the purpose-built city of Naypyidaw in central Myanmar. Home to a population of over 7,000,000 Yangon is Myanmar’s largest city and its most important commercial centre.
The colonial-era commercial core is centred around the Sule Pagoda, which reputed to be over 2,000 years old.[6] The city is also home to the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda — Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist pagoda. The mausoleum of the last Mughal Emperor is located in Yangon, where he had been exiled following the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Yangon suffers from deeply inadequate infrastructure, especially compared to other major cities in Southeast Asia. Though many historic residential and commercial buildings have been renovated throughout central Yangon, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be profoundly impoverished and lack basic infrastructure.