Myanmar
Myanmar, or Burma is a country in Southeast Asia. Since the 1960s, the country, which was previously a part of the British Raj, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.Tap on the map to travel |
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Yangon
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Yangon, formerly known in English as Rangoon, was the capital of Myanmar until it was replaced by Naypyidaw in 2005.
Naypyidaw
Naypyidaw, also spelled Nay Pyi Taw, officially replaced Yangon as the capital of Myanmar in 2005.Mandalay
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Mandalay is the second largest city, and a former capital of Myanmar.
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Southern Myanmar
Southern Myanmar, this area includes all the three Ayeyarwady, Bago, Yangon Myanmar regions.Northern Myanmar
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Upper Myanmar is one of two geographic regions in Myanmar, the other being Lower Myanmar.
Myanmar
- Type: Country with 55,200,000 residents
- Description: country in Southeast Asia
- Language: Burmese
- Neighbors: Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Thailand
- Categories: sovereign state, republic and locality
- Location: Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
21.58° or 21° 34' 48" northLongitude of centre
96.64° or 96° 38' 24" eastPopulation
55,200,000Area
678,500 km² (261,970 miles²)Elevation
165 metres (541 feet)Capital
Nay Pyi TawCurrency
Kyat (MMK)Phone code
.mmInternet domain
95OpenStreetMap ID
node 424316478OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
1327865Wikidata ID
Q836Myanmar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Birmanya
- Abkhazian: Мианма
- Achinese: Myanmar
- Adyghe: Бирмэ
- Afar: Myanma
- Afrikaans: Mianmar (Birma)
- Afrikaans: Mianmar
- Akan: Miyanma
- Akan: Myanmar
- Albanian: Birmania
- Albanian: Mianmar (Burmë)
- Amharic: Burma
- Amharic: ማይናማር(በርማ)
- Amharic: ምየንማ
- Amis: Burma
- Angika: म्याँमार
- Arabic: Birmania
- Arabic: اتحاد بورما
- Arabic: برمانيا
- Arabic: بورما
- Arabic: جمهورية اتحاد ميانمار
- Arabic: ميانمار (بورما)
- Arabic: ميانمار
- Aragonese: Birmania
- Aragonese: Myanmar
- Armenian: Միանմար
- Armenian: Մյանմա (Բիրմա)
- Armenian: Մյանմա
- Arpitan: Birmania
- Arpitan: Birmanie
- Assamese: বাৰ্মা
- Assamese: ব্ৰহ্ম দেশ
- Assamese: ব্ৰহ্মদেশ
- Assamese: বৰ্মা
- Assamese: ম্যানমাৰ (বাৰ্মা)
- Assamese: ম্যানমাৰ
- Asturian: Birmania
- Asturian: Myanmar
- Atayal: Burma
- Awadhi: म्यानमार
- Azerbaijani: Myanma
- Balinese: Myanmar
- Bambara: Myanimari
- Bashkir: Мьянма
- Basque: Birmania
- Basque: Myanmar (Birmania)
- Basque: Myanmar
- Bavarian: Myanmar
- Belarusian: Бірма
- Belarusian: М'янма
- Belarusian: М’янма (Бірма)
- Belarusian: М’янма
- Bengali: বার্মা
- Bengali: মায়ানমার (বার্মা)
- Bengali: মায়ানমার
- Bengali: মিয়ানমার
- Bhojpuri: म्याँमार
- Bishnupriya: মায়ানমার
- Bislama: Burma
- Bosnian: Mijanmar
- Bosnian: Mjanmar
- Brahui: Barmá
- Brahui: Mayánmár
- Breton: Birmania
- Breton: Myanmar (Birmania)
- Breton: Myanmar
- Buginese: Myanmar
- Buginese: ᨆᨐᨊᨆᨑ
- Bulgarian: Мианмар (Бирма)
- Bulgarian: Мианмар
- Burmese: Myanmar
- Burmese: Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw
- Burmese: Pyidaungzu Thammada Myanma Naingngandaw
- Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်
- Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံ
- Burmese: ဗမာ
- Burmese: ဗမာပြည်
- Burmese: မြန်မာ
- Burmese: မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံ
- Burmese: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Birmània
- Catalan: Myanmar (Birmània)
- Catalan: Myanmar
- Cebuano: Birmanya
- Cebuano: Miyëma
- Central Bikol: Myanmar
- Central Kurdish: میانمار
- Chavacano: Birmania
- Chavacano: República del Unión del Birmania
- Chechen: Мьянма (Бирма)
- Chechen: Мьянма
- Chinese: Bián-tiān
- Chinese: Miǎndiàn
- Chinese: 緬甸
- Chinese: 緬甸聯邦共和國
- Chinese: 缅甸 / 緬甸
- Chinese: 缅甸
- Chinese: 缅甸联邦共和国
- Chuvash: Мьянма
- Cornish: Byrmani
- Corsican: Birmania
- Crimean Tatar: Myanmar
- Croatian (Historic): Burma
- Croatian: Mijanmar
- Croatian: Mjanmar
- Croatian: Republika Unija Mjanmar
- Czech: Barma
- Czech: Myanma
- Czech: Myanmar (Barma)
- Czech: Myanmar
- Czech: Republika Myanmarský svaz
- Dagbani: Myanmar
- Danish: Burma
- Danish: Myanmar (Burma)
- Danish: Myanmar
- Dhivehi: ބަރުމާ
- Dimli (individual language): Myanmar
- Dotyali: म्यानमार
- Dutch: Birma
- Dutch: MM
- Dutch: MMR
- Dutch: Myanmar (Birma)
- Dutch: Myanmar
- Dzongkha: མི་ཡཱན་མར་ (བྷར་མ)
- Dzongkha: མེ་མར་
- Eastern Mari: Мьянма
- Egyptian Arabic: ميانمار
- English (Historic): Burma
- English: BUR
- English: Burma
- English: MM
- English: MYA
- English: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
- English: Union of Burma
- Esperanto: Birmo
- Esperanto: MM
- Esperanto: Mjamao
- Esperanto: Mjanmao
- Esperanto: Respubliko Unio Birmo
- Esperanto: Unio Birmo
- Estonian: Birma
- Estonian: Myanmar
- Estonian: Myanmari Liidu Vabariik
- Ewe: Myanmar (Burma) nutome
- Ewe: Myanmar
- Extremaduran: Myanmar
- Faroese: Burma
- Faroese: Myanmar (Burma)
- Fiji Hindi: Myanmar
- Finnish (Historic): Burma
- Finnish: Burma
- Finnish: Myanmar (Burma)
- Finnish: Myanmar
- Finnish: Myanmarin liiton tasavalta
- French: Birmanie
- French: La République de l’Union de Birmanie
- French: MM
- French: Myanmar
- French: Myanmar (Union de)
- French: République de l'Union du Myanmar
- Fulah: Miyamaar
- Fulah: Miyammar
- Gagauz: Myanmar
- Galician: Myanmar (Birmania)
- Galician: Myanmar - ဴမန္မာ
- Galician: Myanmar
- Gan Chinese: 緬甸
- Ganda: Myanima
- Georgian: მიანმარი (ბირმა)
- Georgian: მიანმარი
- German: Birma
- German: Birma (Myanmar)
- German: Birmanien
- German: Burma
- German: Mjanmar
- German: Myanma
- German: Myanma Naingngan
- German: Myanmar
- German: Myanmarischer Staat
- German: Pye Tawngsu Myanma Naingngan
- German: Pyidaungsu Thamada Myanmar Naing-Ngan-Daw
- German: Pyidaunzu Thanmăda Myăma Nainngandaw
- German: Republik der Union Myanmar
- German: Union Myanmar
- German: Union von Myanmar
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Myanmar
- Goan Konkani: Myanmar
- Goan Konkani: म्यानमार
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌼𐌰𐍂/Mjanmar
- Greek: Βιρμανία
- Greek: Μιανμάρ (Βιρμανία)
- Greek: Μιανμάρ
- Greek: Μπούρμα
- Greek: Μυανμάρ
- Guarani: Miama
- Guarani: Miamar
- Guianese Creole French: Birmani
- Gujarati: બર્મા
- Gujarati: બ્રહ્મદેશ
- Gujarati: મ્યાંમાર (બર્મા)
- Gujarati: મ્યાંમાર
- Gujarati: મ્યાનમાર
- Haitian: Bimani
- Hakka Chinese: Mién-thien
- Hausa: Burma, Miyamar
- Hausa: Mién-thien
- Hausa: Myanmar
- Hausa: Puruma
- Hawaiian: Puruma
- Hebrew: מיאנמר
- Hebrew: מייאנמאר
- Hebrew: מיינמר
- Hiligaynon: Birmanya
- Hiligaynon: Miyanma
- Hiligaynon: Miyëma
- Hindi: म्याँमार
- Hindi: म्यानमार
- Hindi: म्यान्मार
- Hungarian: Burma
- Hungarian: Mianmar
- Hungarian: Mianmari Államszövetség Köztársasága
- Icelandic: Mjanmar (Búrma)
- Icelandic: Mjanmar
- Ido: Myanmar
- Igbo: Myanmar (Burma)
- Iloko: Myanmar
- Inari Sami: Myanmar
- Inari Sami: Myanmar lito täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Myanmar (Burma)
- Indonesian: Myanmar
- Indonesian: Myema
- Interlingua: Birmania/Myanmar
- Interlingua: Birmania
- Interlingua: Myanmar
- Interlingue: Myanmar
- Inupiaq: Myanmar
- Irish: Maenmar (Burma)
- Irish: Maenmar
- Italian: Birmania
- Italian: Myanmar (Birmania)
- Italian: Myanmar
- Italian: Repubblica dell'Unione della Birmania
- Jamaican Creole English: Mianmaa
- Japanese: ビルマ
- Japanese: ミャンマー
- Japanese: ミャンマー連邦
- Japanese: ミャンマー連邦共和国
- Javanese: Myanmar (Burma)
- Javanese: Myanmar
- Kabardian: Миянмэ
- Kabiyè: Pirmaanii
- Kabyle: Birmanya
- Kalaallisut: Burma
- Kalmyk: Мьянмудин Ниицән
- Kannada: ಮಯನ್ಮಾರ್ (ಬರ್ಮಾ)
- Kannada: ಮಯನ್ಮಾರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Myanma (Birma)
- Kara-Kalpak: Myanmar
- Kashmiri: مَیَنما بٔرما
- Kashmiri: बर्मा
- Kashmiri: म्यन्मार
- Kashubian: Myanmar
- Kazakh: Мианма
- Kazakh: Мьянма (Бирма)
- Khmer: មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា (ភូមា)
- Khmer: មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា
- Kikuyu: Burma
- Kikuyu: Myama
- Kinaray-A: Birmanya
- Kinaray-A: Miyëma
- Kinaray-A: Myuma
- Kinyarwanda: Mayanimari
- Kirghiz: Мьянма (Бирма)
- Kirghiz: Мьянма
- Komi: Мьянма
- Kongo: Myanmar
- Korean: 미얀마
- Korean: 버마
- Kurdish: Myanmar (Birmanya)
- Kurdish: Myanmar
- Ladin: Mianmar
- Ladino: Myanmar
- Lao: Myanmar
- Lao: ປະເທດມຽນມາ
- Lao: ມຽນມາ (ເບີມາ)
- Latin: Birmania
- Latvian: Mjanma (Birma)
- Latvian: Mjanma
- Ligurian: Myanmar
- Limburgan: Burma
- Limburgan: Börma
- Lingala: Birmanie
- Lingala: Myanmar
- Lingua Franca Nova: Burma
- Lingua Franca Nova: Miama
- Literary Chinese: 緬甸
- Lithuanian: Mianmaras (Birma)
- Lithuanian: Mianmaras
- Livvi: Mjanmar
- Lombard: Myanmar
- Low German: Myanmar
- Lower Sorbian: Myanmar
- Luba-Katanga: Myamare
- Luxembourgish: Myanmar
- Macedonian: Бурма
- Macedonian: Мјанмар (Бурма)
- Macedonian: Мјанмар
- Madurese: Myanmar
- Maithili: बर्मा
- Malagasy: Mianmara
- Malagasy: Myanmar
- Malagasy: Myanmara
- Malay: Burma
- Malay: Myanmar (Burma)
- Malay: Myanmar
- Malay: Republik Kesatuan Myanmar
- Malay: بورما
- Malay: ريڤوبليک کساتوان ميانمر
- Malay: ميانمر
- Malayalam: മ്യാന്മാർ
- Malayalam: മ്യാൻമാർ (ബർമ്മ)
- Malayalam: മ്യാൻമാർ
- Maltese: Burma
- Maltese: Mjanmar
- Maltese: Myanmar/Burma
- Maltese: Myanmar
- Maltese: il-Myanmar/Burma
- Manipuri: ꯑꯋꯥ
- Manx: Myanmar
- Maori: Pēma
- Marathi: म्यानमार (बर्मा)
- Marathi: म्यानमार
- Mazanderani: میانمار
- Mazanderani: میونمار
- Min Dong Chinese: Miēng-diêng
- Min Nan Chinese: Bián-tiān
- Min Nan Chinese: Biān-tián
- Min Nan Chinese: Burma
- Min Nan Chinese: Myanmar
- Minangkabau: Myanmar
- Mingrelian: მიანმარი
- Moksha: Мьянма
- Mon: ဍုင်ရးဗၟာ
- Mongolian: Мьянмар
- Mongolian: ရးနိဂီုဗၟာ
- Mongolian: ꯑꯋꯥ ꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛ
- Moroccan Arabic: بيرمانيا
- Moroccan Arabic: ميانمار
- Narom: Myanmar
- Nauru: Miyanmar
- Navajo: Biʼééʼ Łitsxooí Bikéyah
- Neapolitan: Birmania
- Nepali: म्यानमार
- Nepali: म्यान्मार (बर्मा)
- Nepali: म्यान्मार
- Newari: म्यानमार
- Nias: Myanmar
- North Ndebele: Myanmar
- Northern Frisian: Mjanmaar
- Northern Sami: Burma
- Northern Sami: Myanmar
- Northern Sami: Myanmara lihtu dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Myanmar lihtu dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Burma
- Norwegian: Myanmar (Burma)
- Norwegian: Myanmar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Burma
- Norwegian Bokmål: Myanmar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Myanmarunionen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Myanmar
- Novial: Myanmar
- Occitan (post 1500): Birmania
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Burma
- Oriya: ମିଆଁମାର
- Oromo: Maaynamaar
- Ossetian: Мьянмæ
- Pa'o Karen: မျန်မာခမ်းထီ
- Pali: Brahmadesa
- Pali: 𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀤𑁂𑀲
- Pampanga: Birmania
- Pampanga: Myanmar
- Panjabi: ਮਿਆਂਮਾਰ (ਬਰਮਾ)
- Panjabi: ਮਿਆਂਮਾਰ
- Papiamento: Myanmar
- Persian: مایانمار
- Persian: میانمار
- Picard: Birmanie
- Piemontese: Myanmar
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Myanmaa
- Polish: Birma
- Polish: Mjanma
- Polish: Myanmar
- Portuguese: BUR
- Portuguese: Birmânia
- Portuguese: MM
- Portuguese: MYA
- Portuguese: Mianmar
- Portuguese: Mianmar (Birmânia)
- Portuguese: Mianmar [Birmânia]
- Portuguese: Myanmar
- Portuguese: República da União de Myanmar
- Pushto: ميانمار (برما)
- Pushto: ميانمار
- Quechua: Myanmar
- Romanian: Birmania
- Romanian: Myanmar (Birmania)
- Romanian: Myanmar
- Romansh: Myanmar (Burma)
- Rundi: Birimaniya
- Rundi: Burumaniya
- Russia Buriat: Мьянма
- Russian: Myanmar
- Russian: Бирма (государство)
- Russian: Бирма
- Russian: Бирманский Союз
- Russian: Бирманский союз
- Russian: Мьянма (Бирма)
- Russian: Мьянма
- Russian: Мьянмар
- Russian: Республика Союз Мьянма
- Russian: Союз Мьянма
- Rusyn: Мянма
- Rusyn: Мянмарьско
- Sakizaya: Burma
- Samogitian: Mianmars
- Sango: Myämâra
- Sanskrit: ब्रह्मदेश
- Sanskrit: ब्रह्मदेशः
- Sanskrit: म्यन्मार
- Santali: ᱢᱤᱭᱟᱱᱢᱟᱨ
- Sardinian: Birmania
- Sardinian: Myanmar
- Scots: Burma
- Scots: Myanmar
- Scottish Gaelic: Mianmar
- Scottish Gaelic: Miànmar
- Serbian: Burma
- Serbian: Mjanmar
- Serbian: Бурма
- Serbian: Мијанмар (Бурма)
- Serbian: Мјанмар
- Serbo-Croatian: Mianmar
- Serbo-Croatian: Mjanmar
- Shan: မိူင်းမၢၼ်ႈ
- Shan: မျၢၼ်ႇမႃႇ
- Shona: Bhuruma
- Shona: Burma
- Shona: Myanmar
- Sicilian: Burma
- Sicilian: Myanmar
- Silesian: Birma
- Sindhi: ميانمار (برما)
- Sindhi: ميانمار
- Sinhala: බුරුමය
- Sinhala: මියන්මාරය (බුරුමය)
- Skolt Sami: Myanmaar leett tääʹssväʹldd
- Skolt Sami: Myanmar
- Slovak: Mjanmarsko
- Slovak: Mjanmarská zväzová republika
- Slovak: Myanmar
- Slovenian: Mjanmar (Burma)
- Slovenian: Mjanmar
- Somali: Burma
- Somali: Mayanmar
- South Azerbaijani: میانمار
- Spanish: Birmania
- Spanish: Birmania (Myanmar)
- Spanish: Birmania/Myanmar
- Spanish: Burma
- Spanish: Myanmar
- Spanish: Myanmar (Birmania)
- Spanish: Republica de la Union de Myanmar
- Spanish: República de la Unión de Birmania
- Spanish: República de la Unión de Myanmar
- Spanish: Union de Myanmar
- Spanish: Unión de Myanmar
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵎⵢⴰⵏⵎⴰⵕ
- Sundanese: Myanmar
- Swahili: Myanmar (Burma)
- Swahili: Myanmar
- Swati: IMayanima
- Swedish: Burma
- Swedish: Myanmar (Burma)
- Swedish: Myanmar
- Swiss German: Myanmar
- Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠞ꠆ꠝꠣ
- Sylheti: ꠝꠤꠀꠘꠝꠣꠞ
- Tagalog: Birmanya
- Tagalog: Miyanma
- Tagalog: Miyëma
- Tagalog: Myanmar
- Tajik: Мянма
- Talysh: Mjanmə
- Talysh: Myanmə
- Tamil: மியான்மர்
- Tamil: மியான்மார் (பர்மா)
- Taroko: Burma
- Tatar: Мьянма
- Telugu: మయన్మార్
- Tetum: Birmánia
- Thai: ประเทศพม่า
- Thai: ประเทศเมียนมา
- Thai: เมียนมา (พม่า)
- Tibetan: བྷར་མ།
- Tibetan: འབར་མ།
- Tigrinya: ማያንማር
- Tok Pisin: Myanmar
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Mianimā (Pema)
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Mianimā
- Tosk Albanian: Myanmar
- Tulu: ಮ್ಯಾನ್ಮಾರ್
- Tumbuka: Myanmar
- Tunisian Arabic: ميانمار
- Turkish: Birmanya
- Turkish: Myanmar
- Turkmen: Mýanma (Birma)
- Turkmen: Mýanma
- Udmurt: Мьянма
- Uighur: بىرما
- Ukrainian: М'янма
- Ukrainian: Мʼянма (Бірма)
- Ukrainian: Мянма
- Ukrainian: М’янма
- Upper Sorbian: Burma
- Upper Sorbian: Myanmar
- Urdu: برما
- Urdu: میانمار (برما)
- Urdu: میانمار
- Uzbek: Burma
- Uzbek: Myanma (Birma)
- Uzbek: Myanma
- Uzbek: Myanma Ittifoqi Respublikasi
- Venetian: Birmania
- Venetian: Birmània
- Venetian: Miamà
- Venetian: Mianmà
- Veps: Mjanmar
- Vietnamese: Mi-an-ma
- Vietnamese: Miến Điện (Myanmar)
- Vietnamese: Myanma
- Vlaams: Myanmar
- Volapük: Mianmarän
- Võro: Birma
- Waray (Philippines): Myanmar
- Welsh: Myanmar (Burma)
- Welsh: Myanmar
- Welsh: Myanmar [Byrma]
- Western Armenian: Միանմա
- Western Frisian: Birma
- Western Frisian: Myanmar (Birma)
- Western Frisian: Myanmar
- Western Panjabi: میانمار
- Western Panjabi: میانمر
- Wolof: Miyanmaar
- Wu Chinese: 缅甸
- Yakut: Мьянма
- Yakut: Мьянмар
- Yiddish: בירמע
- Yiddish: מיאַנמאַר
- Yiddish: מיאנמאר
- Yiddish: רעפובליק פֿונעם פֿאַרבאַנד פון בירמע
- Yoruba: Manamari
- Yoruba: Myanmar
- Yue Chinese: 緬甸
- Zeeuws: Myanmar
- Zhuang: Menjden
- Zhuang: Mienjdien
- Zulu: i-Myanmar (Burma)
- Barmanie
- Burmah
- Mianma
- Mianmarraq
- Mien
- Myanma Naingngandaw
- Myanmar/မြန်မာ
- Myanmā
- Mýanmar
- Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
- Union of Myanmar
- ma Mijama
- मयन्मार
- म्यांमार
- මියන්මාරය
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