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Shwedagon Pagoda

religious building in Yangon, Myanmar
Organization buddhist_temple Q464535
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Summary

Shwedagon Pagoda is a Buddhist temple[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of buddhist temple entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,830 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Dagon Township[3]
  • Country: Myanmar[4]
  • Architect: Hsinbyushin[5]
  • Founder: Myanmar[6]
  • Location: Yangon[7]
  • Commons category: Shwedagon pagoda[8]
  • Official website: http://www.shwedagonpagoda.com.mm/[9]
  • Heritage designation: Tentative World Heritage Site[10]
  • Different from: Shwezigon Pagoda[11]
  • Height: 112 m[12]
  • World Heritage criteria: (i)[13], (ii)[14], (iii)[15], (iv)[16], (vi)[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

Shwedagon Pagoda has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Myanmar

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3BR5I
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 24w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location → Yangon
    Architect → Hsinbyushin
    World heritage criteria → (i), (ii), (iii) +2
    Founder → Myanmar
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Building", "ShwedagonPagoda::t3x4n"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257096|batch #257096]]"
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