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Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the
largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or
Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on
the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh
on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the
southwest with the Gulf of Martaban and Andaman Sea defining its
southern periphery. One-third of Burma's total perimeter, 1,930
kilometres (1,199 mi), forms an uninterrupted coastline. |
