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Map of the China-Myanmar border. The China–Myanmar border is the international border between the territory of the People's Republic of China and Myanmar (formerly Burma). The border is 2,129 km (1,323 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with India in the north to the tripoint with Laos in the south. [1]
Myanmar is known by a name deriving from Burma as opposed to Myanmar in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek – Birmania being the local version of Burma in both Italian and Spanish, Birmânia in Portuguese, and Birmanie in French. [32] As in the past, French-language media today consistently use Birmanie. [33] [34]
Trade between China and Myanmar was nearly non-existent prior to 1988. [67] After the imposition of international economic sanctions in 1988, Myanmar-China trade grew 25% year-to-year until 1995, with some decline following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. [67] A sub-pumping station of Sino-Myanmar pipelines in Longling County, Yunnan Province
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. [364] 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.
Muang Mao, also spelled Möng Mao (Ahom:ππ’π€ππ«ππ§π¨, Shan: ααα°ααΊαΈαα’ααΊαΈ; Tai Nüa: α₯α₯«α₯α₯° α₯α₯£α₯α₯°; Burmese: ααα―ααΊαΈαα±α¬; Chinese: εε―) or the Mao Kingdom, was an ethnic Dai state that controlled several smaller Tai states or chieftainships along the frontier of what is now Myanmar, China, the states of Northeast India of ...
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.
Myanmar (Burma) map of Köppen climate classification. Myanmar (also known as Burma) is the northwesternmost country of mainland Southeast Asia located on the Indochinese peninsula. With an area of 261,228 sq mi (676,578 km 2), it is the second largest country in Southeast Asia and the largest on mainland Southeast Asia. [2]
In Myanmar, the definition of a city is ambiguous with the Burmese term ααΌαα―α· ('myo') being translated as any urban area. The General Administration Department only explicitly defines the three cities of Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw. [2] An enlargeable map of Myanmar. An ethnolinguistic map of Burma.