Last year it shifted Myanmar's capital from the port of Yangon to Naypyidaw, in a remote mountainous region.

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Indeed, diplomats who have visited them in the remote mountain fastness of their new capital, Naypyidaw, say they are even more confident.

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The state parliaments will not sit in their regional capitals, as you might imagine, but in the parliament building at Naypyidaw.

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We have seen hard choices made -- from Naypyidaw to Cairo to Abidjan -- to put more power in the hands of citizens.

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Like many other purpose-built administrative capitals - Brazil's Brasilia, Burma's Naypyidaw, Pakistan's Islamabad - its high-design layout hasn't managed to capture the heart and soul of the country it rules.

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