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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