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Myanmar Pyi is the written, literary name of the country, while Bama is the spoken name of the country. [1] Burmese, like Javanese and other languages of Southeast Asia, has different linguistic registers , with sharp differences between literary and colloquial registers. [ 2 ]
Naypyidaw, officially romanized as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), [a] [b] is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory . [ 1 ] It is unusual among Myanmar's cities in that it is an entirely planned city outside of any state or region .
Burmese names (Burmese: မြန်မာ အမည်) lack the serial structure of most Western names. Like other Mainland Southeast Asian people (excepted Vietnamese ), the people of Myanmar have no customary matronymic or patronymic naming system and no tradition of surnames .
The Union Territory (Nay Pyi Taw) (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေ (နေပြည်တော်)), also called Nay Pyi Taw Council Territory (နေပြည်တော်ကောင်စီနယ်မြေ) (Nay Pyi Taw also spelled Nay Pyitaw, Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Daw) is an administrative division in central Myanmar (Burma). [2]
The current capital of Myanmar (Burma) is Naypyidaw. The following is a list of political capitals of notable states in Burmese history from the 9th century to the present. The list is generally organised in dynastic and chronological orders.
Myanmar's contemporary politics around ethnicity surround treating ethnicity as a minoritising discourse, pitting a "pan-ethnic" national identity against minority groups. Often ethnicity identities in practice are flexible- sometimes as flexible as simply changing clothes- in part due to a lack of religious or caste stratification prior to ...
Myanmar is known by a name deriving from Burma in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek. [53] French-language media consistently use Birmanie. [54] [55] There are at least nine different pronunciations of the English name Myanmar, and no single one is standard. Pronunciations with two syllables are found most often in major British and American ...
Constituency maps for State and Regional Hluttaws. Myanmar (also known as Burma) is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include seven states (ပြည်နယ်; pyi ne, IPA:), seven regions (တိုင်းဒေသကြီး; taing detha gyi, IPA: [táiɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí]), five self-administered zones and one self-administered division (Wa Self-Administered ...