Pyay
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Pyay, and formerly anglicised as Prome, is the principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar. Pyay is located on the bank of the Irrawaddy River, 260 km north-west of Yangon. It is an
The view of Pyay and Irrawaddy River from Shwesandaw Pagoda
Strand Road in 1910.
Indian troops of the 20th Division search for Japanese at the badly damaged station in Prome, 3 May 1945.
Sign indicating city limits of Pyay
Lower Myanmar
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Lower Myanmar is a geographic region of Myanmar and includes the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta, as well as coastal regions of the country.
Pyay
…Irrawaddy Flotilla Company established the current town in the late 19th century on the Irrawaddy as a transshipment point for cargo between Upper and Lower Burma. Pyay is also the terminus of Yangon-Pyay Railway which is the first railway line in Burma (Myanmar) opened on 1 May 1877. The English novelist Jane…
Lower Burma in pink, as opposed to Upper Myanmar in orange, 1886