COUNTRY OF BURMA
facts & figures

Full Name
Union of Myanmar

Capital City
Nay Pyi Daw

Population
Approximately 50,000,000

Area
678,500 sq km
261,969 sq miles

Time Zone
GMT/UTC +6.5

Languages
Burmese
(official language and language
of the majority population)

Major languages and language
groups of the ethnic minority peoples:

Karen
(a series of Tibeto-Burman languages
on the East of the country)

Shan
(A Tai various Tibeto-Burman languages
of the Kachin State; Jinghpaw is the
State language

Chin
(Tibeto-Burman languages of the
Western mountains)

Mon
(a Mon-Khmer language of the
Southern area in the Mon State)

Wa
(a Mon-Khmer language of the
Wa State inĀ  the far North)

Religion
Theravada Buddhist (89%)
Christian (4%)
Muslim (4%)
Animist (1%)
Other (2%)


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