Burma/Myanmar: 'View of the Great Dagon Pagoda (Shwedagon Pagoda) at Rangoon and scenery adjacent to the westward of the great road'. Engraving by George Hunt (1797-1872), 1825. The Shwedagon Pagoda, officially called Shwedagon Zedi Daw and also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a 98 metre (322 ft) gilded pagoda and stupa located in Yangon (Rangoon), Burma. The pagoda lies to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, on Singuttara Hill, thus dominating the skyline of the city. It is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese, with relics of the past four Buddhas enshrined within.

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