Mingun, on the west bank of the Ayeyarwady River, north of the Sagaing hills, is home to a few superlatives. Mingun has never been a capital, unlike Inwa, Amarapura and Mandalay, but it holds its own as home to two world-record superlatives. Visitors to tiny Mingun will find the world's largest intact bell, one that can still toll. It was made for an unfinished pagoda. Remnants of this unfinished pagoda, still visible in Mingun, is described as the "world's largest pile of bricks".