About 2,500 years ago, there was probably a coastal fishing village or a trading colony called “Okkala”. After the construction of Shwedagon Pagoda, the settlement grew in fame as Dagon. King Alaungpaya of Konbaung Dynasty founded Yangon when he took the village of Dagon in 1755. He called the settlement as Yangon or “End of Strife”.It become a port city and a centre of commerce since pre-colonial and colonial days.

Yangon, the capital city and gateway to the Union of Myanmar, is one of the most attractive cities in the East. It has been impressive as one of the world’s best planned cities, in standard of both compactness and mathematical uniformity, which can be obviously seen from the straight streets and roads that intersect at right angles.

Its fringes are beautiful with pagodas, spacious parks, gardens and its atmosphere cooled by the Kandawgyi or Royal Lake and Inya Lake.

Most of the major Myanmar and foreign companies are located in Yangon, and imports and exports of the Union of Myanmar generally pass through Yangon Port. The city is also the only one point of entry for visitors from abroad to Myanmar Naing-Ngan by air and sea.