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Myanmar is bordered in the northwest by the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh and the Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh states of India. Its north and northeast border is with the Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan for a Sino-Myanmar border total of 2,185 km (1,358 mi). It is bounded by Laos and Thailand to the southeast. Myanmar has 1,200 mi)of contiguous coastline along the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar (formerly #Burma) is a Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 ethnic groups, bordering #India, #Bangladesh, #China, #Laos and #Thailand.

#Yangon (formerly Rangoon), the country’s largest city, is home to bustling markets, numerous parks and lakes, and the towering, gilded #ShwedagonPagoda, which contains Buddhist relics and dates to shwedagon pagoda.

Myanmar is the second largest country and the northernmost country of #SoutheastAsia; it is shaped like a kite with a long tail.With a population of 51.4 million, the country has a per capita GDP of $1,105, and the poverty rate is 37.5 percent, one of the highest in the region.

Among #ASEAN countries, #Myanmar has the lowest life expectancy and the sec- ond-highest rate of infant and child mortality.Myanmar has defied international calls to investigate military atrocities and crimes against humanity committed against ethnic #Rohingya, including mass killings

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– By Roundup Newswires Publisher Brian Harrod