enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Burmese people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_people

    Burmese people, Officially Myanma people (Burmese: မြန်မာလူမျိုး) are citizens from Myanmar (Burma), irrespective of their ethnic or religious background. Myanmar is a multi-ethnic , multi-cultural and multi-lingual country.

  3. Myanmar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar

    Myanmar is one of the world's most corrupt nations. The 2012 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ranked the country at number 171, out of 176 countries in total. [362] Myanmar is the world's second largest producer of opium after Afghanistan, producing some 25% of the world's opium, and forms part of the Golden Triangle.

  4. List of country groupings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_groupings

    This also has an impact on the Eurovision Song Contest, when these countries added to Spain, are turned the BIG 5. BIMSTEC, a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia around the Bay of Bengal to promote technological and economic co-operation, which includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

  5. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states...

    Claimed as part of the People's Republic of China. Officially recognized as sovereign by 11 UN member states and the Holy See, which deem it to be the rightful government of all of China. In addition, Taiwan maintains unofficial relations with most other countries and is de facto recognized by most sovereign states.

  6. Foreign relations of Myanmar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Myanmar

    Myanmar is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and part of ASEAN+3 and the East Asia Summit. Myanmar agreed to relinquish its turn to hold the rotating ASEAN presidency in 2006 due to others member states' concern of its previous democratic situation. [81]

  7. Bamar people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamar_people

    Since the country achieved independence in 1948, "Myanmar" has been officially used to designate both the nation-state, its official language and majority ethnic group, but the ethnic group was renamed to "Bamar" in 1980 by the order of General Ne Win. [5] In spoken usage, "Bamar" and "Myanmar" remain interchangeable, especially with respect to ...

  8. Outline of Myanmar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Myanmar

    Myanmar, also known as Burma, is the most extensive country in mainland Southeast Asia. [1] The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, and India on the northwest, with the Bay of Bengal to the southwest.

  9. ASEAN - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN

    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [d] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [e] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [14]