Myanmar's famed Shwedagon Pagoda attracts over 3.6 million visitors in H1


This photo taken on Sept. 1, 2022 shows the sunset behind Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. - Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua file

YANGON: The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the golden pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 3.6 million visitors in the first six months of 2024, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda Board of Trustees told Xinhua on Wednesday (July 17).

Among those visitors, over 36,000 were from foreign countries, he added.

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