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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]
The National League for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar: A red field with a blue canton, in which there is a large white five-pointed star surrounded by a circle of 14 small white five-pointed stars Proposed in 2019: The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy's proposed flag for Myanmar
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.
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million.
A pair of regional indicator symbols is referred to as an emoji flag sequence (although it represents a specific region, not a specific flag for that region). [6]Out of the 676 possible pairs of regional indicator symbols (26 × 26), only 270 are considered valid Unicode region codes.
The 1974 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma adopted a new State Seal [7] with Socialist symbols : a pinion (cogwheel) with 14 teeth, surrounding the map of Myanmar, surrounded by two paddy ears, the two artistic Burmese lions besides the branches: The left lion facing to the left and the right lion facing to the right ...
Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it ...
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.