19/09/2025
According to Forbes magazine, the World’s 50 Most Beautiful Villages 2025,
-U, a town of , is today among the 50 most beautiful villages in the world and among the 10 most beautiful cities in Asia according to Forbes 2025. Mrauk-U was the capital of the city where the kings of Arakan reigned.
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Stone stupas rise from the earth like ancient lungs, exhaling centuries of incense across Mrauk U’s windswept plains. At Sh*ttaung, the “Temple of 80,000 Buddhas” built to honor a royal conquest, candlelight flickers through labyrinthine corridors of stone—while Htukkanthein, a 16th-century fortress-temple and ordination hall, guards rows of meditating Buddhas. Farmers pass with baskets of betel leaves, and rumbling ox carts creak along dusty paths toward Koe Thaung, the largest temple in the region—its maze-like interior once housing 90,000 carved Buddha images.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lewisnunn/2025/08/24/the-worlds-50-most-beautiful-villages-2025-according-to-experts/
in the world
in Asia
