Bago, Myanmar Bago, Myanmar Bago (formerly spelt Pegu; , ; , ), formerly known as Hanthawaddy (; ; ; meaning "She Who Has Swans"), is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar. It is located north-east of Yangon. Various Mon language chronicles report widely divergent foundation dates of Bago, ranging from 573 CE to 1152 CE while the "Zabu Kuncha", an early 15th century Burmese administrative treatise, states that Pegu was founded in 1276/77 CE. The earliest extant evidence of Pegu as a place dates only to the late Pagan period (1212 and 1266) when it was still
Yangon Region of Yangon has the best education facilities in the country, the educational facilities and opportunities available in the rest of Yangon Region are extremely poor. Many students in rural and poor districts do not finish middle school. According to official statistics, only about 23% of primary school students make it to high school. Most students are enrolled in the public school system. Private schools, which cost at least $8,000 a year in tuition per student, are strictly the preserve of the elite. Nearly all of the division's universities are in Greater Yangon. Dagon University in North Dagon and the University