Burma
Irrawaddy River nation
Burma is a country in Southeast Asia, now officially called Myanmar.
The name Burma derives from the majority Bamar ethnic group.
Western governments long preferred Burma as a rejection of the 1989 name change imposed by the military junta: The Burma campaign for democracy.
Usage has shifted as Myanmar gained wider acceptance, though Burma persists in historical contexts and among some activists.
Myanmar's chief city
Entitled, demanding woman
Harder true jade mineral
- nephriteSilicate mineral, greenish
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- gemstoneOrnamental cut mineral
- carvingShaping by cutting away
cabochon · bangle · green · translucent · boulder · auction · smuggling
Domination through foreign settlement
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- AvaFeminine given name
- independenceFreedom from external control
- juntaPost-coup ruling clique
annexation · Raj · viceroy · Orwell
Yangon
Myanmar's chief city
Pagan · delta · monsoon · teak · ruby · pagoda · golden · stupa
Karen
Entitled, demanding woman
jadeite
Harder true jade mineral
carving · cabochon · bangle · green · translucent · boulder · auction · smuggling
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- AvaFeminine given name
- independenceFreedom from external control
junta · annexation · Raj · viceroy · Orwell
- British EmpireIndia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong
- Asian ColonialismBritish Raj, British India, Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, East India Company
- Japanese Empireimperial expansion, Manchuria, Korea, Taiwan, China
- Asian KingdomsAngkor, Pagan, Vientiane, Chola, Gupta
- BaganPagan, pagodas, stupas, stupa, Buddhist temples
- Magic Mushroomsliberty cap, liberty caps, blue meanie, blue meanies, penis envy
- Burmese pythonLarge Asian constrictor snake
- Burmese catShorthaired breed from Myanmar
- Burma RoadMountain highway to Kunming