Town in Bago Region, Myanmar
Payagyi (Burmese: ဘုရားကြီး; also spelt Hpayargyi or Hpayagyi) is a town in Bago Township, Bago Region, Myanmar that was elevated from village status in 2013.[2] The four villages the Hpayargyi village tract- Hpayagyi, Shansu, Taungpeteekone and Natkin- were consolidated into three urban wards of the newly created town of Payagyi by the Ministry of Home Affairs.[3]
The town is located roughly 10 miles northeast of Bago via the Yangon-Mandalay Highway. Payagyi is also the starting point of National Highway 8 and serves as a junction along the Asian Highway Network between AH1's main route and its spur going to Yangon.[4]
In 2014, the 2014 Myanmar Census counted 16,805 people in the three urban wards of Payagyi.[5] In 2018 the General Administration Department estimated the population at 17,521 people, increasing to 19,551 people in 2019.[1]
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