20.5900°N, 93.1925°E.
Mrauk U is the capital of the Arakan kingdom in western Myanmar, founded in 1430 CE by King Min Saw Mon and serving as the seat of an independent Buddhist polity that controlled the Bay of Bengal coast and parts of modern Bangladesh until its conquest by the Burmese Konbaung dynasty in 1784. The city sits in a defensive bowl of low hills crossed by canals and contains hundreds of pagodas, temples, and royal compound structures built of hewn sandstone and brick. The Shittaung temple, completed in 1535 CE under King Min Bin, is the most famous monument: a fortress-like sanctuary with thick stone walls, eighty-four octagonal stupas on the upper terrace, and a sandstone-vaulted inner gallery lined with carved relief friezes. The Koe Thaung temple holds 90,000 small Buddha images in interior niches — its name means temple of ninety thousand. The Portuguese, Dutch, and Augustinian friars visited and described the city in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Shittaung walls still stand, and most of the principal temples remain intact.