UNESCO
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📷 Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0
Where in the world
Myanmar (Burma)
The site
Bagan is an ancient city on the plains of Myanmar's Mandalay Region and a World Heritage candidate, capital of the Pagan Kingdom that first unified the lands that would become Myanmar. At its height between the 11th and 13th centuries, more than 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries rose across the plain. The remains of over 2,200 of them still stand today, a field of brick spires that anchors the country's tourism.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Pagan (Burma)
- types
- City
- built
- 200 CE
- occupied
- 200 CE — 1,300 CE
- country
- Myanmar (Burma)
See it in 3D
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Bagan
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What happened at Bagan
- 1,287 CEBattle of Pagan