Pyinmana

Pyinmana lies in the upper Sittaung valley, north of Taungoo. The river rises in the central highlands and flows south between the Pegu Yoma and the eastern hills. Villages and cultivated land occupy the valley, with forested ridges beyond. The town's position links the dry country of Upper Burma with the route south towards Taungoo, the royal centre from which a powerful Burmese dynasty expanded in the sixteenth century.

The later city of Naypyidaw lies here.