Rangoon

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How to use Rangoon in a sentence

But Than Dar ignored them, intent on a traditional Buddhist funeral for her husband in Rangoon.
Hope and Change? Burma Kills a Journalist Before Obama Arrives|Joshua Carroll|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Burma is now Myanmar, Rangoon is Yangon, Prome is Pyay and Pegu is Bago.
The Good Old Travel Guide Days|Tony Wheeler|August 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Obama announced the reestablishment of the U.S. AID mission in Rangoon.
Obama Does Delicate Dance on Historic Visit to Burma|Lennox Samuels|November 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Signaled its acceptance of the United Nations human-rights office in Rangoon.
Obama Does Delicate Dance on Historic Visit to Burma|Lennox Samuels|November 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Then she flew to Rangoon to cover the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from 15 years of house arrest.
A Foot in Two Worlds: Holly Williams on Reporting—and Parenting—in War Zones|Abigail Pesta|October 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The English army had left Rangoon, and were advancing towards Prome, when these severe measures were taken with the prisoners.
Fox's Book of Martyrs|John Foxe
Frighten him away, he's after those chocolates wrapped in silver paper that you brought up from Rangoon.
Round the Wonderful World|G. E. Mitton
We see columns encrusted with little bits of many-coloured looking-glass, like those we saw in Rangoon.
Round the Wonderful World|G. E. Mitton
In Rangoon the lighter-skinned and lighter-hearted Burmese contrast rather notably with the dark and serious Hindus.
Where Half The World Is Waking Up|Clarence Poe
Still further north, at Rangoon, on the Irrawaddy, we find the same contrivance described by Symes in 1795.
The Evolution of Culture|Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers