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As of 2006, Myanmar government web pages in English used imperial and metric units inconsistently. For instance, the Ministry of Construction used miles to describe the length of roads [ 4 ] and square feet for the size of houses, [ 5 ] but square kilometres for the total land area of new town developments in Yangon City. [ 5 ]
In Burmeses traditions, peafowl is regarded as a symbol of the descendence of the sun. [3] The dancing peacock, ka-daung (Burmese: ကဒေါင်း) was used as the symbol of the Burmese monarch. During the period of Konbaung Dynasty, the dancing peacock on a red sun is charged on the State seal and the national flag.
The first design of the State Seal of Burma, adopted by the Constituent Assembly in 1947, [5]: 8 contained the Burmese text ပြည်ထောင်စု သမတမြန်မာ နိုင်ငံတော်။ on the banner, which means "Republic of Union of Myanmar" (the same as the text in the current State Seal except the ...
Orders, decorations, and medals of Myanmar (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "National symbols of Myanmar" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The NLD proposed changing the national flag as they do not believe that the flag adopted in 2010 has the full support of the people of Myanmar. [27] Their proposed flag was based on the flag adopted by the country at independence and consisted of a red field with a blue canton in the upper hoist.
These use the same range as the Unicode Myanmar block (0x1000–0x109F), and are even applied to text encoded like UTF-8 (although Zawgyi text does not officially constitute UTF-8), despite only a subset of the code points being interpreted the same way. Zawgyi lacks support for Myanmar-script languages other than Burmese, but heuristic methods ...
The street demonstrations, which were met with a brutal crackdown, morphed into an armed resistance movement that has combined with many of Myanmar's ethnic rebel armies to pose the most ...
The imperial system of measure does not have an equivalent to the US customary system of "dry measure". In the international commodities markets, the barrel ( 42 US gallons , ≈159 litres) is used in both London and New York/Chicago for trading in crude oil and the troy ounce (≈31.10 grams) for trading in precious metals, except the London ...