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US
/ɹæŋˈɡun/
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NOUN
- the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta
How To Use Rangoon In A Sentence
- In October 1927, the young missionary was steaming at 15-20 knots towards Rangoon.
- The Taiwanese spy network is believed to be still active in Burma, particularly in Rangoon, Mandalay, Myitkyina, Lashio and in border towns.
- It has already set up 2 new clinics in Serangoon Gardens and Novena Square this year, and plans to open another clinic in "NEX" shopping mall in Serangoon Central. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
- In the Rangoon division, 18 out of 40 branch offices are now operating, with nine permitted to put up their old signboards.
- The Japanese aim to open the Bangkok - Rangoon section by the middle of May.
- The reasons may be found in Rangoon, amid the mildewing British colonial buildings and billboards threatening to "" crush '' foreign troublemakers. Burma's Men Of Gold
- Japanese civilians, left to fend for themselves in Rangoon, evacuated as best they could and made their way via the Three Pagodas Pass into Kanchanaburi and thence to Bangkok.
- The disaster in Rangoon had touched off an extensive reorganization of the bureaucracy dealing with North-South and international affairs.
- These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.
- The U.S. could use moral and political suasion to encourage American companies to cut links to Rangoon.