See soorce fer Myanmar

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[[File:MyanmarEthnolinguisticMap1972.jpg|thumb|The ethnolinguistic divisions in Burma]]
'''Burma''', kent forby as '''Myanmar''' an offeecially the '''Republic o the Union o Myanmar''', is the lairgest kintra bi geographical aurie in mainland [[Sootheast Asie]]. The kintra is bordered bi [[Fowkrepublic o Cheenae]] on the north-east, [[Laos]] on the aest, [[Thailand]] on the sooth-east, [[Bangladesh]] on the wast, [[Indie]] on the north-wast an the [[Bay o Bengal]] tae the sooth-wast wi the [[Andaman Sea]] defining its soothern periphery. Ane-third o Burma's tot perimeter, 1,930 kilometers (1,199&nbsp;mi), forms an uninterrupted coastline.

== Etymology ==
{{Main|Names o Burma}}

"Burma" is derived frae the Burmese wird "Bamar" ([[File:Bama.svg|ဗမာ|30px]]), which in turn is the colloquial form o Myanmar ([[File:Myanma.svg|မြန်မာ|30px]]) (or Mranma in auld [[Burmese leid|Burmese]]), baith o which historically referred tae the majority [[Bamar|Burmans]] (or the Bamar). Dependin on the [[register (linguistics)|register]] uised the pronunciation wad be "Bama" ({{IPA-my|bəmà|pron}}), or "Myanmah" ({{IPA-my|mjəmà|pron}}). The name "Burma" haes been in uise in Inglis syne the time o [[Breetish Burma|Breetish colonial rule]].

== Regions an states ==
{{Main|Admeenistrative diveesions o Burma}}
[[File:Burma en.png|thumb|The 14 states an regions o Burma]]

The kintra is dividit intae seiven states ({{my|ပြည်နယ်}}) an seiven regions ({{my|တိုင်းဒေသကြီး}}), umwhile cawed diveesions.<ref name="2008constbur">{{my|ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်)|}} (in Burmese) [http://www.irrawaddy.org/election/component/filecabinet/?task=download&cid[0&#93;=1|2008 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501121420/http://www.irrawaddy.org/election/component/filecabinet/?task=download&cid |date=2011-05-01 }} Constitution PDF]</ref> The annooncement on the renamin o diveesion tae regions wis made on 20 August 2010.<ref>{{cite news |title=တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ |newspaper=[[Weekly Eleven|Weekly Eleven News]] |date=2010-08-20 |url=http://www.news-eleven.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4375:2010-08-20-12-39-51&catid=42:2009-11-10-07-36-59&Itemid=112 |accessdate=2010-08-23 |language=Burmese}}</ref> Regions are predominantly [[Bamar]] (that is, mainly inhabitit bi the dominant ethnic group). States, in essence, are regions which are hame tae parteecular ethnic minorities. The administrative diveesions are further subdividit intae [[Destricts o Burma|destricts]], which are further subdividit intae [[tounship]]s, [[ward (sub-naitional entity)|wards]], an veelages.

Belaw are the nummer o destricts, tounships, ceeties/touns, wards, veelage Groups an veelages in each diveesions an states o Burma.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! No.
! [[Kintra subdiveesion|State/Region]]
! [[Destricts]]
! [[Tounships]]
! [[Ceeties]]/[[Toun]]s
! [[Ward (kintra subdiveesion)|Wards]]
! [[Veelage groups]]
! [[Veelages]]
|-
| 1
| [[Kachin State]]
| 3
| 18
| 20
| 116
| 606
| 2630
|-
| 2
| [[Kayah State]]
| 2
| 7
| 7
| 29
| 79
| 624
|-
| 3
| [[Kayin State]]
| 3
| 7
| 10
| 46
| 376
| 2092
|-
| 4
| [[Chin State]]
| 2
| 9
| 9
| 29
| 475
| 1355
|-
| 5
| [[Sagaing Region]]
| 8
| 37
| 37
| 171
| 1769
| 6095
|-
| 6
| [[Tanintharyi Region]]
| 3
| 10
| 10
| 63
| 265
| 1255
|-
| 7
| [[Bago Region]]
| 4
| 28
| 33
| 246
| 1424
| 6498
|-
| 8
| [[Magway Region]]
| 5
| 25
| 26
| 160
| 1543
| 4774
|-
| 9
| [[Mandalay Region]]
| 7
| 31
| 29
| 259
| 1611
| 5472
|-
| 10
| [[Mon State]]
| 2
| 10
| 11
| 69
| 381
| 1199
|-
| 11
| [[Rakhine State]]
| 4
| 17
| 17
| 120
| 1041
| 3871
|-
| 12
| [[Yangon Region]]
| 4
| 45
| 20
| 685
| 634
| 2119
|-
| 13
| [[Shan State]]
| 11
| 54
| 54
| 336
| 1626
| 15513
|-
| 14
| [[Ayeyarwady Region]]
|6
| 26
| 29
| 219
| 1912
| 11651
|-
|
| '''Tot'''
| '''63'''
| '''324'''
| '''312'''
| '''2548'''
| '''13742'''
| '''65148'''
|}
[[File:Innwa monastery.jpg|thumb|Abeddel n Birmanya
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== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Freemit airtins ==
{{Sister project links}}
{{Wikinews}}
; Govrenment
* [http://www.myanmar.gov.mm/ myanmar.gov.mm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051220003223/http://www.myanmar.gov.mm/ |date=2005-12-20 }}
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/world-leaders-b/burma.html Chief o State an Cabinet Members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207173243/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/world-leaders-b/burma.html |date=2012-02-07 }}
; General information
* [http://www.mizzima.com/ Burma Relatit-News]
* [http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/myanmar.htm Burma] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205161122/http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/myanmar.htm |date=2009-12-05 }} frae ''UCB Libraries GovPubs''
* {{wikiatlas|Myanmar}}
* {{Wikivoyage|Myanmar}}
* [http://www.burmalibrary.org/ Online Burma/Myanmar Library: Classified and annotated links to more than 17,000 full-text documents on Burma/Myanmar]
* [http://www.myanma.com/ Burmese/Myanmar Myanma Search Ingine Wab steid]
* [http://my.wikipedia.org/ Offeecial Burmese Leid Wikipedia Wab steid]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/eyes-of-the-storm/turning-points-in-burmese-history/5363/ Interactive timeline o turnin points in Burmese history]
{{Commonscat|Myanmar}}

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