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Hotels in Rangoon are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation. Some may want to stay at well known hotels in the city that have good access to good scenic views. Some may want to stay at hotels that have had good reviews. Some may want to stay at hotels that are large or small. Some may want to stay at hotels that have a new or classic design.

Hotels in Rangoon are often needed for tourists who need a place to stay.

Yangon is the largest city and a former capital of Burma. It is the capital of Yangon Division.

Yangon's infrastructure is relatively undeveloped compared to those of other major cities in Southeast Asia. Yangon has the largest number of colonial buildings in Southeast Asia 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 was founded as Dagon in the 6th century AD by the Mon, who dominated Lower Burma at that time. Dagon was a small fishing village centered about the Shwedagon Pagoda. In 1755, King Alaungpaya conquered Dagon, and renamed it "Yangon". The British captured Yangon during the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26) but returned it to Burmese administration after the war. The city was destroyed by a fire in 1841.

The British Empire seized Yangon and all of Lower Burma in the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852, and subsequently transformed Yangon into the commercial and political hub of British Burma. Based on the design by army engineer Lt. Alexander Fraser, the British constructed a new city on a grid plan on delta land, bounded to the east by the Pazundaung Creek and to the south and west by the Yangon River. By the 1890s Yangon's increasing population and commerce gave birth to prosperous residential suburbs to the north of Royal Lake (Kandawgyi) and Inya Lake. The British also established hospitals including Rangoon General Hospital and colleges including Rangoon University.

Colonial Yangon, with its spacious parks and lakes and mix of modern buildings and traditional wooden architecture, was known as "the garden city of the East." By the early 20th century, Yangon had public services and infrastructure on par with London.

Before World War II, almost half of Yangon's population was Indian or South Asian.

Yangon was under Japanese occupation (1942–45), and incurred heavy damage during World War II.

Yangon is located in lower Burma at the convergence of the Yangon and Bago Rivers about 19 miles away from the Gulf of Martaban

Until the mid 1990s, Yangon remained largely constrained to its traditional peninsula setting between the Bago, Yangon and Hlaing rivers. Yangon is known for its British colonial architecture. The former British colonial capital has the highest number of colonial buildings in Southeast Asia. Downtown Yangon is still mainly made up of decaying colonial buildings in woeful condition. The High Court, and the Strand Hotel are two excellent examples of the bygone era. Most downtown buildings from this era are four-story mix-use (residential and commercial) buildings with 14 foot ceilings, allowing for the construction of mezzanines. Despite their less-than-perfect conditions, the buildings remain highly sought after and most expensive in the city's property market.

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