Myanmar is formally the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and also called Burma, a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country in Landmass Southeast Asia, as well as has a populace of regarding 54 million as of 2017. Myanmar is surrounded by Bangladesh and also India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and also southeast, as well as the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south as well as southwest. The country’s resources city is Naypyidaw, as well as its biggest city is Yangon (Rangoon).

Early civilisations in the area consisted of the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu city-states in Upper Myanmar and the Mon kingdoms in Lower Myanmar. In the 9th century, the Bamar people got in the top Irrawaddy valley, as well as following the establishment of the Pagan Kingdom in the 1050s, the Burmese language, society, as well as Theravada Buddhism gradually came to be leading in the nation.

The Pagan Kingdom fell to Mongol invasions, and also numerous warring states arised. In the 16th century, reunified by the Taungoo dynasty, the nation ended up being the biggest empire in the history of Southeast Asia for a brief duration.

The early 19th-century Konbaung empire ruled over a location that consisted of contemporary Myanmar as well as briefly regulated Manipur as well as Assam also. The British East India Business took control of the administration of Myanmar after 3 Anglo-Burmese Battles in the 19th century, and the nation became a British colony.

After a short occupation by Japan, Myanmar was reconquered by the Allies and also obtained independence in 1948. Complying with a coup d’état in 1962, it became an armed forces tyranny under the Burma Socialist Program Celebration.

For a lot of its independent years, the country has actually been engrossed in widespread ethnic quarrel and its myriad ethnic groups have been associated with one of the world’s longest-running ongoing civil battles. Throughout this time around, the United Nations as well as a number of other organisations have reported regular and also systemic civils rights infractions in the nation.

In 2011, the military junta was formally dissolved following a 2010 basic political election, as well as a nominally noncombatant government was set up. This, together with the launch of Aung San Suu Kyi as well as political prisoners and also effective elections in 2015, had actually enhanced the nation’s human rights record and foreign connections and had caused the easing of trade as well as various other economic sanctions, although the nation’s treatment of its ethnic minorities, specifically about the Rohingya dispute, remained to be condemned by international organizations and also several countries.