Bago

Photo by Roman Bruehwiler.

Mon cities : Bago, Hanthawaddy is part of the Tentative list of Myanmar in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List. It is a proposed extension of WHS.

Bago was the capital of the Mon kingdom of Hanthawaddy during the 13th-16th centuries. The Mon-speaking people at the time ruled large sections of present-day Myanmar. In Bago a large number of monasteries and pagodas still remain or have been reconstructed.

Map of Bago

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The coordinates shown for all tentative sites were produced as a community effort. They are not official and may change on inscription.

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