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Nay Pyi Taw
noun
- the capital of Myanmar (Burma) as of 2006, located in the country's central plains.
Nay Pyi Taw
/ ˈneɪ ˈpjiː ˈtaʊ /
noun
- the official capital of Myanmar (Burma), built in the centre of the country near Pyinmana in 2005–2006, and superseding Yangon (Rangoon) for main government functions. Pop: officially approaching 1 000 000 in 2007
Example Sentences
In the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, she works at getting a meeting with the country’s military junta, which has banned Facebook.
Before we arrived in Kyaukse, we had been in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw.
On Saturday night, an elderly woman was rescued in Myanmar's capital, Nay Pyi Taw, after being trapped for 36 hours under the rubble of a hospital.
This is near the city of Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city with a population of about 1.5 million people, and about 100km north of the capital Nay Pyi Taw.
The entrance to the emergency department of a hospital in Nay Pyi Taw was damaged as casualties received medical attention in the compound.
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