Inside Burma’s ghost town capital city, which is 4 times the size of London with a fraction of the population
[2023-11-25 03:11:32]
The capital of the capital Nyipidu is 7,054 square kilometers, about four and a half times the area of London (1,569 square kilometers).
But the city is a ghost town. While estimated in London in 2016 is 63 million people, its population is only 924,608
In November 2005, the then military government moved Myanmar 's capital from Yangon to Nepito (meaning the position of the king).
According to the Guardian news, the rumor to build the city, 20 highways, wide roads designed for future expansion was $ 4 billion (3.2 billion pounds).
It has reliable electricity, golf course, hotel, mall, restaurant, cafe, fast and free Wi-Fi.
But despite government's billions of dollars investment, the city is trying to attract local residents and tourists in Myanmar.
A Guardian reporter who visited the city in March 2015 said, "The expansive expressway is completely empty, still in the air, there is no movement."
This is Nay Pyi Taw, the capital city of Myanmar. The area is more than four times that of London, but the population is one tenth.
Here, the famous landmark of Uppatasanti Pagoda is completely empty, it is August - the major tourist season of many other cities
It seems to be the busiest, as shown below, and a friend takes pictures in front of an artificial waterfall in the garden of the Naypyidaw fountain
There are not many guests in a large hotel built in designated "hotel area" including The Mingalar Thiri Hotel.
"The bright Sunday afternoon, the street is quiet and the restaurant and hotel lobby is empty," the Guardian reported. "It looks like a strange painting of revelation in the suburbs of America, it seems to be a movie of David Lynch in North Korea."
The guards monitored the door of the federal solidarity development headquarters headquarters. It is not clear that they protect the building.
Nevertheless, the flag of Myanmar is still proudly flying out of the city's National Museum - of course, there is no one here.
A strange story seems to have a very large suburban facility that is not available in the "specially built" capital of Nepadu, Myanmar, other parts of the country - but no one can enjoy them. The 20-lane highway is empty at the peak. Huge golf courses and parks are being pruned by workers, but only a few elite civil servants are involved. In this article, I advocate an ambitious infrastructure project, but the wrong reason for the wrong project turns into a self-imitating style of Xanadu style no matter how ambitious it is. Rather than actually starting with what you really want and need, if you are building a solar punk community from scratch and trying to embed staff in the future, a similar fate awaits. Let's call it the failed state sprawlpunk: reproduce an unsustainable development method under the name of a fundamental ideal
Yangon is the most populous city in Myanmar, but estimates of population size are various. Since Myanmar has not been officially censused since 1983, all population data are estimates. The United Nations estimates that the population of 2010 is 4.45 million people, but in 2009 the US State Department estimated it to be 5.5 million. Because the UN figures are linear, the US State Department estimate may be close to the actual figures and it does not seem to take into account city expansion over the past 20 years. The city's population has dramatically increased since 1948, many people from other parts of the country (mainly Burmese) in the 1950s were newly constructed North Okarapa, South Okarapa and Taketa, East Dagon, I entered the southern Dagon and the south. Satellite town Dagon was in the 1990s. Immigrants established their regional associations (Mandalay Association, Mawlamyaing Association, etc) in Yangon for network purposes.