Pyinmana (, ; population: 100,000 (2006 estimate)) is a
logging town and
sugarcane refinery center in the
Naypyidaw Union Territory of
Myanmar. The administrative
capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarized
greenfield site (which the leader,
Than Shwe, dubbed
Naypyidaw, or Royal City) two miles (3.2 km) west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005. Pyinmana is approximately north of
Yangon. The village of
Yezin, a few miles north and east of Pyinmana, has been the site of national scientific research institutions since the late 1970s.