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: The U. S. does not recognize the renaming of Burma by its ruling military junta to Myanmar and thus keeps its entry for the country under " Burma ".

Civil wars have further resulted in economic collapse ; Burma ( Myanmar ), Uganda and Angola are examples of nations that were considered to have promising futures before being engulfed in civil wars.

For example, the nation of Burma officially changed its name to Myanmar, but many nations do not recognize the ruling junta and continue to use Burma.

Students on their way to school, Hakha, Chin State, Burma | Myanmar

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

The border with Burma ( Myanmar ) extends up to 1, 643 km ( 1, 021 mi ) along the southern borders of India's northeastern states.

The Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar ( Burma ), Thailand, Laos and Cambodia traditionally harvested ivory from their domesticated elephants.

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* Burma / Myanmar – Two Burmese companies produce unlicensed copies of jeeps ; Myanmar Jeeps and Chin Dwin Star Jeeps.

When the Japanese carried their attack through Burma ( now Myanmar ) to the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government, faced by this new military threat, decided to make some overtures to India, as Nehru had originally desired.

Laos is a landlocked nation in Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam, that covers 236, 800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula, is surrounded by Burma ( Myanmar ), Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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* Mu River, a river in Burma ( Myanmar )

While the CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar ( also known as Burma ) is the northwestern-most country on the mainland of southeast Asia.

The following is an overview of the demographics of Burma ( or Myanmar ), including statistics such as population, ethnicity, language, education level and religious affiliation.

Burma ( also known as Myanmar ) is unitary presidential constitutional republic under the 2008 constitution.

The Economy of Burma ( Myanmar ) is one of the least developed in the world, suffering from decades of stagnation, mismanagement, and isolation.

The Myanmar Armed Forces, officially known as Tatmadaw (, ) is the military organization of Burma, also known as Myanmar.

The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

North Andaman Island is south of Burma, although a few smaller Burmese islands are closer, including the three Coco Islands.

The zebrafish is native to the streams of the southeastern Himalayan region, and is found in parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Burma.

This is done because the name change " was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma ".

Wally goes off to war and his plane is shot down over Burma.

Subsequently, Wally is found in Burma and returns home, paralyzed from the waist down.

He is still able to have sexual intercourse but is sterile due to an infection received in Burma.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

In the first three books, Nayland Smith is a colonial police commissioner in Burma granted a roving commission which allows him to exercise authority over any group that can help him in his mission.

The Ghana Air Force is headquartered in Burma camp Accra, and operates from bases in Accra ( main transport base ), Tamale ( combat and training base ), Takoradi ( training base ), and Kumasi ( support base ).

South Asia too is another region in which armed irredentist movements have been active for almost a century, due to the Balkanization of North-East India, Burma and Bangladesh under British colonialism.

* 1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.

Kabir Bedi is a firm supporter of the freedom struggle in Burma, and has become an official ambassador of the Burma Campaign UK.

In Burma, a royal library called the Pitaka Taik was legendarily founded by King Anawrahta ; in the 18th century, British envoy Michael Symes, upon visiting this library, wrote that " it is not improbable that his Birman majesty may possess a more numerous library than any potentate, from the banks of the Danube to the borders of China ".

In the north, the country is bounded by a mountainous 423-kilometer border with China and shares the 235-kilometer-long Mekong River border with Burma.

It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Burma and muay Lao from Laos.

" In September 1925 he went to Insein, the home of Insein Prison, the second largest jail in Burma.

Burma is also the world's second largest producer of opium, accounting for 8 % of entire world production and is a major source of illegal drugs, including amphetamines.

In March 2012, 6 of Thailand's largest garment manufacturers announced that they would move production to Burma, principally to the Yangon area, citing lower labor costs.

Burma is also the 2nd largest supplier of opium ( following Afghanistan ) in the world, with 95 % of opium grown in Shan State.

The upper South Asian belt of Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, and Burma still account for the world's largest supply of opium.

* 2007 – Between 30, 000 and 100, 000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.

The ten countries with the largest number of currently-imprisoned journalists are Turkey ( ninety-five ), China ( 34 imprisoned ), Iran ( 34 ), Eritrea ( 17 ), Burma ( 13 ), Uzbekistan ( six ), Vietnam ( five ), Cuba ( four ), Ethiopia ( four ), and Sudan ( three ).

The largest producer of sesame seeds in 2010 was Burma.

It is now the largest parish church in the county and houses the tomb of Lord Mountbatten of Burma.

Other neighbouring residents of Kachin State include the Shans ( Thai / Lao related ), the Lisus, the Rawangs, the Nagas, and the Burmans, the latter forming the largest ethnic group in Burma, also called Bamar.

Fourteenth Army, still under Slim's command, was the largest component of ALFSEA, making the main attack into Central Burma.

The largest commercial producers of spirulina are located in the United States, Thailand, India, Taiwan, China, Pakistan, Burma ( a. k. a. Myanmar ), Greece and Chile.

Bago, the divisional capital, is the fourth largest town of Burma.

Smithsonian National Zoological Park, which has been closely associated with the preservation of the thamin deer, has in its conclusive observations stated: " Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary ( CWS ) in Myanmar ( Burma ) protects the largest population of the endangered Eld's deer left in the world.

Civil war in Burma and Laos resulted in an increased flow of Akha immigrants and there are now some 80, 000 living in Thailand's northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai where they constitute one of the largest of the hill tribes.

The state of Assam is the world's largest tea-growing region, lying on either side of the Brahmaputra River, and bordering Bangladesh and Burma ( Myanmar ).

British Burma became the world's largest exporter of rice, from the turn of the 20th century to the 1970s, when neighbouring Thailand exceeded Burma.

BCUK campaigns on behalf of the Burmese pro-democracy movement and is the largest campaigning organisation for Burma in Europe.

However, the combined Army Air Forces in both the China Burma India Theater and the Pacific theater were the largest and most powerful military organization ever fielded by any country in the world.

and 2nd largest in Tamil Nadu after puzhal central prison, Convicts sentenced to imprisonment are confined in the jail from various districts of the Presidency as well as from Burma.

Burma was the world's largest exporter of rice in the inter-war period.

The dynasty created the second largest empire in Burmese history, and continued the administrative reforms begun by the Toungoo dynasty, laying the foundations of modern state of Burma.