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Yangon ( Burmese : ရန်ကုန် , MLCTS rankun mrui , pronounced: [jàɴɡòʊɴ mjo̰] ; also known as Rangoon , literally: "End of Strife") is a former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the capital of Yangon Region . It also served as the Capital in Exile of Azad Hind . Yangon is the country's largest city with a population of over five million, and is the most important commercial centre, although the military government officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw in March 2006.
Although Yangon's infrastructure is undeveloped compared to those of other major cities in south-east Asia, it has the largest number of colonial buildings in the region today. While many high-rise residential and commercial buildings have been constructed or renovated throughout downtown and Greater Yangon in the past two decades, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be deeply impoverished.
Yangon ( ရန်ကုန် ) is a combination of the two words yan ( ရန် ) and koun ( ကုန် ), which mean "enemies" and "run out of" respectively. It is also translated as "End of Strife". "Rangoon" most likely comes from the British imitation of the pronunciation of "Yangon" in the Arakanese language , which is [rɔ̀ɴɡʊ́ɴ] .