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Title: BURMA


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BURMA
  • BORJA

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Location
  • Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and
    the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and
    Thailand
  • Slightly smaller than Texas

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Government type
  • military junta (hoon-ta) (a military
    dictatorship or Military rule. )
  • Burma's military rulers are notorious for using
    brute force. Now a human-rights report accuses
    them of using that force against the country's
    ethnic-minority populations

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Opposition
Two years after an ambush on a convoy of her
National League for Democracy, Myanmars
pro-democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, remains cut
off from the world.
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Population
  • 42,909,464

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Climate
  • Tropical monsoon cloudy, rainy, hot, humid
    summers (southwest monsoon, June to September)
    less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures,
    lower humidity during winter (northeast monsoon,
    December to April)

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Natural hazards
  • destructive earthquakes and cyclones flooding
    and landslides common during rainy season (June
    to September) periodic droughts

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Imports - commodities
  • fabric, petroleum products, plastics, machinery,
    transport equipment, construction materials,
    crude oil food products

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  • THE END
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