Burmans account for about 70 percent of the country’s population of over 48 million. The geographical heart is the central lands and the original home of the Bur- mans, focusing on Mandalay in the Irrawaddy River basin. The country includes a wide diversity of ethnic groups. During the hot season the temperatures rise to 100☏ (38☌) or more in the Dry Zone, while the coastal areas are about 10☏ (6☌) cooler. The hot season begins in February and lasts until the rains start.

By mid-November the winds reverse, their direction to northeast, and are dry. The country can be broadly divided into five regions based on relief features: The northern mountains the western ranges the eastern plateau the central lowlands, and the delta of River Irrawaddy and the southern coastal plain.Īs the winds cross the Arakan, rainfall decreases to between 25 and 40 inches (6501, 000 mm) in the central lowlands, the so called “Dry Zone” of the country. In general, the topography slopes from north to south, from an elevation of 19,296 feet (5,881 meters) in the extreme north to sea level at the Irrawaddy and Sittang river deltas. The southern elongated and narrow extension, the “tail” of the country runs south of the “central core” along the Malay Peninsula-making its total length from north to south about 1,275 miles (2,050 km).

Myanmar extends from latitude 10°N to 28°N, and thus is the northernmost country in Southeast Asia, with a considerable territory located beyond the tropics. In the north, these mountains border China, to the west India and Bangladesh, to the east Laos, and Thailand. Lacking ethnic coherence, the Burmans, who form over two-thirds of the country’s population, are concentrated in a comparatively smaller, central lowland “core” area bounded within a framework of peripheral ethnically diverse area of mountains. Deeply suspicious of the West, and marked by internal instability and economic stagnation, it has virtually shut itself off from the outside world-a condition stemming from its peculiar geography, and pre-independence history of subordination of the colonial past. The country has been a “hermit” nation since independence from the British in 1948. In physical dimensions, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is the largest of the nations of mainland Southeast Asia.

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