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Country Profile: Myanmar (Burma)

A Closer Look at... Myanmar
OFFICIAL NAME
 Union of Myanmar (formerly Union of Burma)
GEOGRAPHY
 Central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands bordered by the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand.
AREA
 671,000 sq km / 259,073 sq miles
COMPARATIVE
 Slightly smaller than Texas
POPULATION
 42,720,196
CAPITAL
 Rangoon
LITERACY
 94% (age 15+ and can read and write)
LANGUAGE

Official: Burmese

Other: Shan, Karen, and Kachin
RELIGIONS
 Theravada Buddhist - 87%
Christian - 5%
Muslim - 4%
Animist - 2%
Other - 2%
POLITICS
 Won independence from UK in 1948, currently run by military regime
INCOME
 Per capita income = US$ 500 per year
CURRENCY
 Kyat (K)
LANGUAGE

Burmese (official)

Other: Shan, Karen, and Kachin
TIME ZONE
GMT/UTC + 6.5
SOURCES
 Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News.

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