Rangoon

Rangoon is the former English name of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. The name remained widely used until the government officially renamed the city Yangon in 1989.

Yangon: Yangon is Myanmar’s largest city and its principal commercial center. The city now officially called Yangon was widely known in English as Rangoon before 1989.
British Burma: British Burma was the colonial territory governed by Britain from the 19th century until independence in 1948. British rule entrenched Rangoon as the city’s standard English name.
Yangon (name): Yangon is the current official English name of the city formerly widely called Rangoon. It is the official form adopted in 1989, in contrast with the older English name.
Rangoon (film): Rangoon is a 2017 Indian historical war film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Its title uses the city’s former English name for a story set during the Second World War.
Dagon: Dagon is the historic settlement and name associated with the Shwedagon Pagoda before the city was renamed Yangon. Rangoon developed from the colonial-era rendering of the Burmese name for this settlement.
Yangon renaming: The 1989 renaming changed the English forms of many Burmese place-names, including Rangoon to Yangon. The official change displaced Rangoon in government usage without immediately ending its use elsewhere.
Burma: Burma is the former English name of the country officially called Myanmar since 1989. The country’s parallel renaming helps explain why some English-language sources retained Rangoon.
Rangoon (novel): Rangoon is a 1930 novel by Maurice Collis about British colonial life in Burma. The title preserves the city name familiar to English-language readers of its period.
Shwedagon Pagoda: Shwedagon Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa in Yangon, traditionally dated to more than 2,000 years ago. The pagoda’s prominence helped define the settlement from which Rangoon grew.
State Law and Order Restoration Council: The State Law and Order Restoration Council was Myanmar’s military government from 1988 to 1997. The military government officially adopted Yangon in 1989 as part of broader name changes.

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