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Myanmar is situated in Southeast Asia and is bordered on the north and
northeast by China, on the east and southeast by Laos and Thailand, on the
south by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal and on the west by Bangladesh
and India. The country covers an area of 676,577 square kilometres (261,228
square miles) in the shape of a diamond, 936 kilometres (582 miles) from
east to west and 2,051 kilometres (1,275 miles) from north to south.
It is a land of hills and valleys and is rimmed in the
north, east and west by mountain ranges forming a giant horseshoe. Enclosed
within the mountain barrier are the flat lands of Ayeyarwady, Chindwin and
Sittaung Rivers valleys where most of the country's agricultural land and
population is concentrated.
East Longitude 96 ° 13' and North Latitude 16 ° 45' run through Yangon, the
capital of Myanmar. The Myanmar Standard Time, taken as on East Longitude 97
° 30', is 6 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich meantime.
The length of contiguous frontier is 3,828 miles (6,159 km) and the
coastline from the mouth of Naaf River to Kawthaung is 1,385 miles (2,228
km).
The total length of boundary:
- Myanmar-China 1,370 miles
- Myanmar-Thailand 1,310 miles
- Myanmar-India 832 miles
- Myanmar-Laos 148 miles
- Myanmar-Bangladesh* 168.7 miles
* It consists of two parts, namely the Naaf River boundary (39.5 miles) and
the land boundary (129.2 miles).
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