Updated for September 2026
The Best Zoos in Myanmar
How this list is ordered: by how complete our listing is — how much we hold on opening hours, ticket prices, accreditation, photographs, animals and facilities. It is a measure of our own coverage, not a judgement of the venue. We hold no visitor scores or conservation assessments, so “best” here means every zoo in Myanmar that qualifies for the list, fullest entry first.
Listed alphabetically
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Yangon Zoological Gardens
Zoo in ရန်ကုန်
The 70-acre park also contains a natural history museum, an aquarium and a funfair. It holds almost 200 species and 1,100 animals, and draws close to 2.2 million visitors a year. The Forest Department ran it until April 2011, since when a private company has done so.
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Naypyidaw Zoological Gardens
Zoo in Naypyidaw
The zoo lies on the Yangon-Mandalay highway some 400 km north of Yangon. It covers 612 acres and opened on 27 March 2008, Armed Forces Day, with about 420 animals moved from the Yangon zoo. The collection includes elephants, crocodiles, tigers and white tigers, leopards, zebras, kangaroos and a hippo, and there is an air-conditioned penguin building.
Our ranking methodology
This is not a ranking. The 3 venues above are listed alphabetically by name, the same order used throughout this site. We do not collect visitor reviews, star ratings, ticket-sales figures or a conservation-impact score, so none of those exist here to rank by — “best” in this page’s title means every venue that qualifies for this list, not first-to-last by quality. If we ever add a data source robust enough to support an honest ranking, this note and the order above will change together.