Bagan's plain holds more than 2,200 surviving temples, out of over ten thousand once built.
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Myanmar
Republic of the Union of Myanmar ยท แแผแแบแแฌ
Asia
ยท South-Eastern Asia
0Population
676.58Kkmยฒ of land
$1.41KGDP / person
NaypyidawCapital
- ISO codes
- MM ยท MMR
- Density
- 80 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Burmese
- Currency
- Burmese kyat (MMK)
- Dial code
- +95
- Internet domain
- .mm
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 21.5740ยฐ N, 95.8040ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Burmese
- UN region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $76.09B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Myanmar stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
26th
of 242 ยท 0.70% of world population
Land area
41st
of 242 ยท 0.45% of world land
GDP per person
202nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
122nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Myanmar
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 54,045,420 people, the 26th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.7 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 676,578 kmยฒ, making it the 41st largest country here - about 7.3 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 80 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Naypyidaw, at 19.77ยฐ N, 96.12ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 930,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Thailand.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Yangon.
The currency is the Burmese kyat (MMK, symbol Ks).
The official language is Burmese.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Yangon
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UTC+06:30
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Yangon
Yangon
16.7853ยฐ N, 96.1647ยฐ E
4.09M
2
Mandalay
Mandalay
21.9719ยฐ N, 96.0831ยฐ E
1.3M
3
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Naypyidaw
Mandalay
19.7685ยฐ N, 96.1167ยฐ E
930K
4
Sittwe
Rakhine
20.1400ยฐ N, 92.8800ยฐ E
179.03K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Bagan Temple Plain
Spiritual
More than 2,200 surviving temples on a bend of the Irrawaddy, out of over ten thousand once built.
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Myanmar.