Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast. To its south, about one third of Myanmar's total perimeter of 5,876 km (3,651 mi) forms an uninterrupted coastline of 1,930 km (1,200 mi) along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The country's 2014 census counted the population to be 51 million people. As of 2017, the population is about 54 million. Myanmar is 676,578 square kilometres in size. Its capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city and former capital is Yangon (Rangoon). Myanmar has been a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since 1997.
Myanmar is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include:
The Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar. There were an estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar before the 2016–17 crisis. By December 2017, an estimated 625,000 refugees from Rakhine, Myanmar, had crossed the border into Bangladesh since August 2017. The majority are Muslim while a minority are Hindu. Described by the United Nations in 2013 as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, the Rohingya population is denied citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law with the Myanmar government telling them they are Bengalis that need to return to Bangladesh. According to Human Rights Watch, the 1982 laws "effectively deny to the Rohingya the possibility of acquiring a nationality". Despite being able to trace Rohingya history to the 8th century, Myanmar law does not recognize the ethnic minority as one of the eight "national indigenous races". They are also restricted from freedom of movement, state education and civil service jobs. The legal conditions faced by the Rohingya in Myanmar have been widely compared to apartheid by many international academics, analysts and political figures, including Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, a South African anti-apartheid activist.
The Bamar are the dominant ethnic group in Myanmar. Bamar people live primarily in the Irrawaddy River basin and speak the Burmese language, which is the official language of Myanmar. Bamar customs and identity are closely intertwined with the broader Burmese culture. The Bamar people are often imprecisely called "Burmese", though this term in contemporary usage can refer to any citizen of Myanmar, regardless of ethnicity.
British rule in Burma, also known as British Burma, lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a Province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence. Various portions of Burmese territories, including Arakan, Tenasserim were annexed by the British after their victory in the First Anglo-Burmese War; Lower Burma was annexed in 1852 after the Second Anglo-Burmese War. The annexed territories were designated the minor province, British Burma, of British India in 1862.
Districts are the second-level administrative divisions of Myanmar. They are the sub-divisions of the States and Regions of Myanmar. According to the Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU), as of December 2015, there are 67 districts in Myanmar, which in turn are subdivided into townships, then towns, wards and villages.
Tabayin is a town in the Sagaing Division in Myanmar.
Shwebo Township is a township of Shwebo District in the Sagaing Region of Burma (Myanmar).
It is located on the plains between the Mu River and the Ayeyarwady River. The ancient palace of King Alaungmintaya is being excavated there. Its administrative seat is the city of Shwebo.
The Third Anglo-Burmese War, also known as the Third Burma War, was a conflict that took place during 7–29 November 1885, with sporadic resistance and insurgency continuing into 1887. It was the final of three wars fought in the 19th century between the Burmese and the British. The war saw the loss of sovereignty of an independent Burma under the Konbaung dynasty, whose rule had already been reduced to the territory known as Upper Burma, the region of Lower Burma having been annexed by the British in 1853, as a result of the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
Wetlet Township is a township of Shwebo District in the Sagaing Division of Burma (Myanmar).
It is located on the plains between the Mu River and the Irrawaddy. Its administrative seat is the town of Wetlet.
Sadaung is a small town in Sagaing District in the southeast of the Sagaing Division in Burma. It is located north of Okhnebin.
Sadaung is a small town in eastern Myingyan District in the center of the Mandalay Region in Burma (Mandalay). It is located just south of Route 2, south-west of Pyinzi and eastsouth-east of Natogyi.
Sadaung is a village in Yamethin District in the south-central part of the Mandalay Region in Myanmar. It is located south-east of Yindaw just west of Route 1, north-west of Pyawbwe, Pyawbwe Township.
Sadaung (ဆားတောင်) is a common town name in the Sagaing Region and the Mandalay Region of Burma (Myanmar). It may refer to:
Sadaung is a village in Shwebo District in south-western Sagaing Region in Burma (Myanmar). It is in the Mu River drainage basin. It is located 2.5 km south-west of Halin Taungbo, in the foothills of the Mawdaw Mountains.
Danau (Danaw) is a Mon–Khmer language of Myanmar (Burma). It is the most divergent member of the Palaungic branch. Danau is spoken by about 1,000 people near Aungban, Kalaw Township, Shan State. Danau /dənɔ/ is the Burmese pronunciation of the ethnonym; the Danau themselves pronounce the name of their ethnic group and language as /tʰənɔʔ/. An acceptable variant is /kənɔʔ/. Danau is a tonal language with four tones.
Burmese folk religion refers to the animistic and polytheistic religious worship of nats in Burma (Myanmar). Although the beliefs of nats differ across different regions and villages in Burma, there are a handful of beliefs that are universal in Burmese folk religion.
Pat Jasan is an anti-drug organisation founded in 2014 in Kachin State Myanmar. The organisation has been described as "vigilantes", "an ethnic Kachin public movement", "militant christians" a "civilian movement" and Myanmar's "largest civilian uprising in nearly a decade".
The Inn Din massacre was a mass execution of Rohingyas by the Myanmar Army and armed Rakhine locals in the village of Inn Din, in Rakhine State, Myanmar on 2 September 2017. The victims were accused of being members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) by authorities. An investigation by Myanmar's military concluded on 10 January 2018 that there was indeed a mass execution of Rohingyas in Inn Din, marking the first instance where the military admitted to extrajudicial killings during their "clearance operations" in the region.
