ancient city located in the
Mandalay Region
of Burma
(Myanmar). From the 9th to 13th
centuries, the city was the capital of the
Kingdom
of Pagan, the first kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute
modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th
centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were
constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200
temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
The Bagan Archaeological Zone is a main draw for the country's nascent tourism
industry