Where are the People..??
Naypyidaw. No, silly, it is not Yangon or Rangoon for a decade now. Imagine in Phoebe Buffay’s voice: It’s Naypyidaw, Naypyidaw.
The military regime of Myanmar decided to build this capital in the early 2000s in the middle of nowhere spending a vast mount of money without any clear goals of why it was needed.
The city is four times the size of London, has a Penguin habitat, but less than a million people. Most of the recent publications I’ve read seem to be confused as to why this city exists at all.
It’s 300km from the ancient capital of Yangon from where the ministers commute by road. There was even a plan for a metro, thankfully the govt realized they don’t really need it!
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