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===Parks and gardens===
The largest and best maintained parks in Yangon are located around [[Shwedagon Pagoda]]. To the south-east of the gilded stupa is the most popular recreational area in the city – [[Kandawgyi Lake]]. The 150-acre (61-ha) lake is surrounded by the 110-acre (45-ha) [[Kandawgyi Nature Park]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-travel/myanmar-yangon/kandawgyi-garden.htm |title=Kandawgyi Garden |access-date=21 December 2006 |archive-date=23 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923195453/http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-travel/myanmar-yangon/kandawgyi-garden.htm }}</ref> and the 69.25-acre (28-ha) [[Yangon Zoological Gardens]], which consists of a zoo, an aquarium and an amusement park, and [[Bogyoke Aung San Park]].<ref name="yz">{{cite web |url=http://www.yangonzoo.com/profile.html |title=History of Zoological Gardens (Yangon) |access-date=27 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802013535/http://www.yangonzoo.com/profile.html |archive-date=2 August 2008 |url-status=usurped |df=dmy-all}}</ref> West of the pagoda towards the former Hluttaw (Parliament) complex is the 130-acre (53-ha) [[People's Square and Park]], the former parading ground on important national days when Yangon was the capital.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://myanmargeneva.org/basicfacts/cap.htm |title=Nation's Capital Yangon |access-date=9 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714132014/http://www.myanmargeneva.org/basicfacts/cap.htm |archive-date=14 July 2009 }}</ref> A few miles north of the pagoda lies the 37-acre (15-ha) [[Inya Lake|Inya Lake Park]] – a favourite hangout place of [[Yangon University]] students, and a well-known place of romance in Burmese popular culture.

[[Hlawga National Park]] and [[Taukkyan War Cemetery|Allied War Memorial]] at the outskirts of the city are popular day-trip destinations with tourists.