Editing Yangon (section)

===Road layout===
[[File:Ministers' Office Building Yangon 4.jpg|thumb|Yangon Secretariat Office]]
[[Downtown Yangon]]'s road layout follows a grid pattern, based on four types of roads:
* Broad 49-m wide roads running west to east
* Broad 30-m wide roads running south to north
* Two narrow 9.1-m wide streets running south to north
* Mid-size 15-m wide streets running south to north

The east–west grid of central was laid out by British military engineers Fraser and Montgomerie after the [[Second Anglo-Burmese War]].<ref name="arc"/> The city was later developed by the Public Works Department and Bengal Corps of Engineers. The pattern of south to north roads is as follows: one broad {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=on}} wide road, two narrow streets, one mid-size street, two more narrow streets, and then another broad {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=on}} wide road. This order is repeated from west to east. The narrow streets are numbered; the medium and broad roads are named.

For example, the {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=on}} Lanmadaw Road is followed by {{convert|30|ft|m|adj=on}}-wide 17th and 18th streets then the medium {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=on}} Sint-Oh-Dan Road, the 30-foot 19th and 20th streets, followed by another {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=on}} wide Latha Road, followed again by the two numbered small roads 21st and 22nd streets, and so on.

The roads running parallel west to east were the Strand Road, Merchant Road, Maha Bandula (née Dalhousie) Road, Anawrahta (Fraser) Road, and Bogyoke Aung San (Montgomerie) Road.
[[File:Yangon Kandawgyi Lake.jpeg|thumb|[[Kandawgyi Lake]], a popular park near downtown Yangon]]