Explore Myanmar in Asia - Myanmar Tourism Info

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.

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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 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 country consists of 14 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Myanmar

Demographic Information

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.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Myanmar is growing at an rate of 1.1% (or by 584,887 citizens). Each year 16,558 people leave this country (or 0.30 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 1.13%. Or an total increase of 601,446 citizens.

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.