Yangon through 250 million years

Yangon lay at 45° south.

The first dinosaurs

Yangon lay at 14° south, the latitude of Lilongwe today.

The great extinction

Yangon lay at 7° north, the latitude of Colombo today.

Homo sapiens

Yangon lay at 17° north, its latitude today.

Yangon today.

17° north. In 250 million years the plates have carried it some 16,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 45° south; 250 million years ago
Farthest south: 45° south; 250 million years ago
Farthest north: 29° north; 180 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 220 million years ago
Distance travelled: 16,000 kilometres; 250 million years

other places

Positions come from the plate model of Merdith and colleagues (2021), through the GPlates Web Service of the EarthByte Group at the University of Sydney. The globe shows today's coastlines carried back with their plates, not the shorelines of the time, so it does not say whether a place was land or sea. Cities and their coordinates come from Wikidata.