Yamethin City

Yamethin (Tampan: ရမည်းသင်း; Songese:ヤˇメˊㄊイン) is the capital and largest city of Yamethin Province in Dai Hoa. As of 2015, the city had an estimated population of 653,572.

Historically, the area of modern Yamethin has been home to important fishing and trading settlements since the time of the Ketumadi Kingdom in the 15th century. During the colonial era, Yamethin was a key hub of the colonial trade in the region. In 1839, three Yamataian traders were murdered in Yamethin, giving Imperialist Yamatai a cassus belli to invade the region in the Yamatai-Ratana War. After the Yamataian victory in the war, Yamethin was occupied by the Yamataians and expanded into a major port city to support Yamataian operations in the region.

During the Dai Hoa Unification War, the city was the site of an amphibious invasion by Three Powers Alliance forces. In response to this, the city was targeted by Arshavat with a strategic nuclear weapon to dislodge the Alliance's foothold, following the successful battlefield use of tactical nuclear weapons days earlier in the war. On 5 December 1958, at 3:25 p.m., a nuclear weapon was dropped on Yamethin, becoming the first and only city in history to be attacked by a strategic nuclear weapon. Most of the city was destroyed, and by the end of the year 90,000 to 150,000 people had died as a result of the blast and its effects. The Yamethin Anti-Nuclear Weapons and Peace Memorial Complex serves as a memorial of the bombing.

Since being rebuilt after the war, Yamethin has become the largest port in the North Region and the fifth-largest port in Dai Hoa.