The Maha Bandula Park or Maha Bandula Garden is a public

Public

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 park, located in downtown Yangon

Yangon

Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...

, Burma. The park is bounded by Maha Bandula Garden Street

Maha Bandula Garden Street

Maha Bandula Garden Street is a street of Yangon, Burma. It runs past Maha Bandula Park....

 in the east, Sule Pagoda Road

Sule Pagoda Road

Sule Pagoda Road is a major thoroughfare of Yangon, Burma. It runs past Maha Bandula Park....

 in the west, Konthe Road

Konthe Road

Konthe Road is an east-west road in downtown Yangon, Burma. It runs past Maha Bandula Park....

 in the south and Maha Bandula Road

Maha Bandula Road

Maha Bandula Road is a major road of southern Yangon, Burma. It crosses the city in a west-east direction and runs parallel to Bogyoke Aung San Road. It runs past Maha Bandula Park and eventually to Maha Bandula Bridge....

 in the north, and is surrounded by some of the important buildings in the area such as the Sule Pagoda

Sule Pagoda

The Sule Pagoda is a Burmese stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography. According to legend, it was built before the Shwe Dagon pagoda during the time of the Buddha, making it more...

, the Yangon City Hall

Yangon City Hall

Yangon City Hall is the city hall of Yangon, the largest city of Burma, and the seat of the city's administrative body, Yangon City Development Committee . The building is considered a fine example of syncretic Burmese architecture, featuring traditional tiered roofs called pyatthat, and was...

 and the High Court.

The park is named after General Maha Bandula

Mahabandoola

General Maha Bandula was commander-in-chief of the Burmese military forces from 1821 until his death in 1825 in the First Anglo-Burmese War. Bandula was a key figure in the Konbaung dynasty's policy of expansionism in Manipur and Assam that ultimately resulted in the war and the beginning of the...

 who fought against the British in the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826), and includes the Independence Monument, an obelisk

Obelisk

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 in commemoration of Burmese independence from the British in 1948. The park was formerly named Fitch Square (or Fytche Square) after English

English people

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 trader Ralph Fitch

Ralph Fitch

Ralph Fitch was a gentleman merchant of London and one of the earliest English travellers and traders to visit Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, India and Southeast Asia...

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The park is popular with t'ai chi practitioners in the morning and in the evening.