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Pegu

Town, 1852–1937

ပဲခူးမြို့

Today Bago, Bago Region, Myanmar. Same place, renamed.

Key facts

Historical name
Pegu
Type
Town
Coordinates
17.3433° N, 96.4981° E(seed dataset)
Governance
Directly administered
Record confidence
High confidence
Identifiers
Q800122

Directly administered by the Governor-General of India, and therefore part of British India in the statutory sense of the Interpretation Act 1889, s.18.

Location

Pin placed at the coordinates recorded for this place. Colonial-era boundaries are not drawn.

Description

Former Mon royal capital (Hanthawaddy) and district head-quarters, with a 1901 town population of 14,132 per the Imperial Gazetteer.

Historical notes

Gave its name to the province of Pegu annexed in 1852 after the Second Anglo-Burmese War; site of the Shwemawdaw pagoda. Now Bago.

Administrative history

Administrative parenthood changed over time. Each row states the years it is recorded for, and the source it comes from.

Administrative units this place is recorded under, by year
YearsRelationUnitConfidence
from 1901Part ofBurmaProvince · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred.High confidencesource
from 1901Part ofPeguDistrict · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred.High confidencesource

Recorded names

Every documented spelling and transliteration held for this place. The historical name is canonical; modern names redirect to it.

Name variants recorded for this place
NameScriptTypeYears
PeguLatinHistorical English
BagoLatinModern English
PeguLatinAlternative spelling
Pegu TownLatinAlternative spelling
ပဲခူးမြို့MyanmarIndigenous

Records and references

Imperial Gazetteer of India
Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31), Vol. XX (20), p. 82
Census of India
Census of India, 1901, Vol. XII (12): Burma

Sources

  1. Encyclopedia· generalCC BY-SA

    Wikipedia: Bago, Myanmar, Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  2. Database· identityCC0

    Wikidata (Q800122), Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikidata, CC0 1.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  3. Gazetteer· administrativeLicence unverified

    Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908–31), DSAL entry: Pegu Town, University of Chicago / Digital South Asia Library

    Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago — the 1908–31 text is public domain, but DSAL's digital presentation states no licence; link-out only

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  4. Archive· descriptionPublic domain

    Internet Archive scan: in.gov.ignca.31005, Internet Archive

    Scanned volume of a pre-1929 publication (Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908–31 / Census of India 1901); public domain. Digitisation courtesy of the Internet Archive.

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

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