Myanmar Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Myanmar with its capital Yagyigon is located in Asia (Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal). It covers some 678,501 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Texas) with 47,758,000 citizens. Burmese is the language spoken by people in Myanmar. China, Laos, Thailand, Bangladesh and India are bordering countries.

Myanmar or Burma, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is considered to have 3 seasons. The hot season is usually from March-April, and temperatures would then cool off during the rainy season from May-October. The peak tourism season is the cool season from November-February. Temperatures can climb as high as 36°C in Yangon in the hot season while in the cool season, noontime temperatures are usually a more bearable 32°C, with night temperatures falling to around 19°C.

Pictures from Capital (Yagyigon)

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About Myanmar

The topography features central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands. The average density of population is about 70 per km². The climate in Myanmar can be described as tropical monsoon with cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers (southwest monsoon, June to September), less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humidity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April). Potential natural disasters are destructive earthquakes and cyclones or flooding and landslides common during rainy season (June to September) or periodic droughts.

To reach someone in Myanmar dial +95 prior to a number. There are 812,000 installed telephones. And there are 502,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".mm". The following list are the 14 regions/states in Myanmar we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Burmese population grew at a rate of 1.1% (or by 584,887 citizens). With 439,600 deaths and 1,041,046 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.13%. -16,558 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Myanmar: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.