Myanmar

Burma, kent forby as Myanmar an offeecially the Republic o the Union o Myanmar, is the lairgest kintra bi geographical aurie in mainland Sootheast Asie. The kintra is bordered bi Fowkrepublic o Cheenae on the north-east, Laos on the aest, Thailand on the sooth-east, Bangladesh on the wast, Indie on the north-wast an the Bay o Bengal tae the sooth-wast wi the Andaman Sea defining its soothern periphery. Ane-third o Burma's tot perimeter, 1,930 kilometers (1,199 mi), forms an uninterrupted coastline.

The ethnolinguistic divisions in Burma

Etymology

Main airticle: Names o Burma

"Burma" is derived frae the Burmese wird "Bamar" (), which in turn is the colloquial form o Myanmar () (or Mranma in auld Burmese), baith o which historically referred tae the majority Burmans (or the Bamar). Dependin on the register uised the pronunciation wad be "Bama" (pronounced: [bəmà]), or "Myanmah" (pronounced: [mjəmà]). The name "Burma" haes been in uise in Inglis syne the time o Breetish colonial rule.

Regions an states

Main airticle: Admeenistrative diveesions o Burma

The 14 states an regions o Burma

The kintra is dividit intae seiven states (ပြည်နယ်) an seiven regions (တိုင်းဒေသကြီး), umwhile cawed diveesions.^[1] The annooncement on the renamin o diveesion tae regions wis made on 20 August 2010.^[2] Regions are predominantly Bamar (that is, mainly inhabitit bi the dominant ethnic group). States, in essence, are regions which are hame tae parteecular ethnic minorities. The administrative diveesions are further subdividit intae destricts, which are further subdividit intae tounships, wards, an veelages.

Belaw are the nummer o destricts, tounships, ceeties/touns, wards, veelage Groups an veelages in each diveesions an states o Burma.

No.	State/Region	Destricts	Tounships	Ceeties/Touns	Wards	Veelage groups	Veelages
1	Kachin State	3	18	20	116	606	2630
2	Kayah State	2	7	7	29	79	624
3	Kayin State	3	7	10	46	376	2092
4	Chin State	2	9	9	29	475	1355
5	Sagaing Region	8	37	37	171	1769	6095
6	Tanintharyi Region	3	10	10	63	265	1255
7	Bago Region	4	28	33	246	1424	6498
8	Magway Region	5	25	26	160	1543	4774
9	Mandalay Region	7	31	29	259	1611	5472
10	Mon State	2	10	11	69	381	1199
11	Rakhine State	4	17	17	120	1041	3871
12	Yangon Region	4	45	20	685	634	2119
13	Shan State	11	54	54	336	1626	15513
14	Ayeyarwady Region	6	26	29	219	1912	11651
	Tot	63	324	312	2548	13742	65148

Abeddel n Birmanya

References

1. ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese) [0]=1|2008 Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine Constitution PDF
2. "တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ". Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 20 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.

Freemit airtins

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Govrenment

• myanmar.gov.mm Archived 2005-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Chief o State an Cabinet Members Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine

General information

• Burma Relatit-News
• Burma Archived 2009-12-05 at the Wayback Machine frae UCB Libraries GovPubs
• Wikimedia Atlas o Myanmar
• Travel guide tae Myanmar frae Wikivoyage
• Online Burma/Myanmar Library: Classified and annotated links to more than 17,000 full-text documents on Burma/Myanmar
• Burmese/Myanmar Myanma Search Ingine Wab steid
• Offeecial Burmese Leid Wikipedia Wab steid
• Interactive timeline o turnin points in Burmese history

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