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Bagan (, ; formerly Pagan) is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of 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. It is seen by many as equal in attraction to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
Bagan is a federal constituency in Penang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1959.
The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Bagan may refer to:
- Bagan, ancient city located in Myanmar
- Bagan, Russia
- Butterworth, Penang
- Bagan (federal constituency), represented in the Dewan Rakyat
- Butterworth (state constituency), formerly represented in the Penang State Legislative Assembly (1959–74)
- Butterworth (settlement constituency), formerly represented in the Penang Settlement Council (1955–59)