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Country Profile: Myanmar (Burma)

OFFICIAL NAME	Union of Myanmar (formerly Union of Burma)
GEOGRAPHY	Central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands bordered by the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand.
AREA	671,000 sq km / 259,073 sq miles
COMPARATIVE	Slightly smaller than Texas
POPULATION	42,720,196
CAPITAL	Rangoon
LITERACY	94% (age 15+ and can read and write)
LANGUAGE	Official: Burmese Other: Shan, Karen, and Kachin
RELIGIONS	Theravada Buddhist - 87% Christian - 5% Muslim - 4% Animist - 2% Other - 2%
POLITICS	Won independence from UK in 1948, currently run by military regime
INCOME	Per capita income = US$ 500 per year
CURRENCY	Kyat (K)
LANGUAGE	Burmese (official) Other: Shan, Karen, and Kachin
TIME ZONE	GMT/UTC + 6.5
SOURCES	Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News.

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