#Myanmar UNESCO #world heritage sites

#Bago state [capital = Pegu]

#Pyu Ancient City in #Sri Ksetra on Tharay-Khit-taya, Pyay
# The Pyu occupied several sites across Upper Myanmar, with Sri Ksetra recorded as the largest, the city wall enclosing an area of 1,477 hectares, although a recent survey found it enclosed 1,857 hectares within its monumental brick walls, with an extramural area of a similar size, being the largest Southeast Asian city before Angkor times.

#Kachin state [capital = Myitkyina]

#Pyu Ancient City in #Hanlin, Wetlet
# In the era of the Pyu city-states it was a city of considerable significance, possibly a local capital replacing Sri Ksetra. Today the modest village is noted for its hot springs and archaeological sites.

#Magway state [capital = Magway]

#Pyu Ancient City in #Beikthano
# Named after the Hindu god Vishnu, the city may be the first capital of a culturally and perhaps even politically uniform state in the history of Burma. It was a large fortified settlement, measuring approximately 300 hectares inside the rectangular (3 km by 1 km) walls. The walls and fortifications along it measured six meters thick, and are radiocarbon dated to a period between 180 BCE and 610 CE.

#Mandalay state [capital = Mandalay]

#Sacred Landscape in #Bagan
# The site’s eight components include numerous temples, stupas, monasteries and places of pilgrimage, as well as archaeological remains, frescoes and sculptures.