Yezin is a university village located beside the Yangon-Mandalay Road. The village of Yezin ( my, ရေဇင်း), 12 miles far from north-east of

Pyinmana 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 ...

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

, has been the site of national scientific research institutions since the late 1970s, when the Forest Research Institute (FRI) was established. Soon after the FRI was established, other institutions followed the suit and the place became an academic hub for Forestry, Agriculture and Veterinary. It is located within Naypyidaw Municipal area. Because of the universities and research institutes, the village is famous as the university village. Yezin became a well known academic center long before

Nay Pyi Taw Naypyidaw, officially spelled Nay Pyi Taw (; ), is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory. It is unusual among Myanmar's cities, as it is an entirely planned city out ...

was established and became the capital in 2005. Yezin has a dam and it is called Yezin dam. People around Pyinmana used to visit to the dam. Although it is a small village, there are three

universities A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

in Yezin: *

Yezin Agricultural University Yezin Agricultural University (YAU) ( my, ရေဆင်း စိုက်ပျိုးရေး တက္ကသိုလ် ), located in Yezin, is the only institution of higher learning in agriculture in Myanmar. YAU also has major campuses ...

(YAU) * University of Forestry * Yezin University of Veterinary Science There are two research institutes: *Department of Agricultural Research (DAR) *Forest Research Institute (FRI) In addition to these research institutions, th
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute (SEABRI)
was unveiled in 2016 within the FRI campus. It is a joint initiative between the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

and Forest Research Institute. It is a regional research institution with its research works focusing on flora and fauna, both aquatic and terrestrial, in the region. Up to date, SEABRI has discovered some new flora and fauna species in Myanmar.

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Populated places in Mandalay Region {{Mandalay-geo-stub