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2003-MAY-17

DEMOCRATIC BURMA (Myanmar Borders)	All Burma Students' Democratic Front : ABSDF :	Dr Naing Aung
BURMA (New York + Rockville)	National Council of the Union of Burma : NCUB :	U Maung Maung Gyi
MYANMAR (Yangon ^a^y)	Union of Myanmar : UOM [State Peace and Development Council : SPDC] :	Than Shwe
COMMUNIST BURMA (Chiangmai)	Communist Party of Burma : CPB :	Comrade Kyin Maung
POPULAR BURMA (North Mae Sot)	People's Liberation Front of Burma : PLF :	U Aye Saung

Other Entities with similar names

Union of Myanmar : UOM [State Peace and Development Council : SPDC]

(Yangon ^a^y)

	Union of Myanmar : UOM [State Peace and Development Council : SPDC]
Flag or Logo since 1974-01-03	Pyeidaungzu MYANMA Naingngandaw : ပြည်ထောင်စု မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ (my) + Union of MYANMAR (en)^w	Emblem or Symbol

Than Shwe
(ruler of MYANMAR since 1992-04-23)





Capitals & administrative places:	Yangon ^a^y (Rankun)	^a administrative, national or political capital (also ruler's residence) ^y religious or ceremonial capital
Official & national languages:	*English (en) . Burmese (my) .*	^w recognized, diplomatic or working language at national level

Mainland:

BURMA

Divisions of BURMA (Yangon)

7 Regionalized Divisions:

AYEYARWADY

AYEYARWADY Division [Irrawaddy] (Pathein)

Local:

AYEYARWADY tuing: – ဧရာဝတီတိုင်း (my) (Pu. sim)

BAGO

BAGO Division [Pegu] (Bago)

Local:

BAGO tuing: – ပဲခူးတိုင်း (my) (Bago)

MAGWAY

MAGWAY Division [Magwe] (Magway)

Local:

MAGWAY tuing: – မကွေးတိုင်း (my) (Magway)

MANDALAY

MANDALAY Division (Mandalay)

Local:

MANTA.LE: tuing: – မန္တလေးတိုင်း (my) (Mantalay)

SAGAING

SAGAING Division (Sagaing)

Local:

SAC KUING: tuing: – စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း (my) (Sackuing)

TANINTHARYI

TANINTHARYI Division [Tenasserim] (Dawei)

Local:

TANINTHARYI tuing: – တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း (my) (Htawai)

YANGON

YANGON Division [Rangoon] (Yangon)

Local:

RANKUN tuing: – ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း (my) (Rankun)

7 Territories:

CHIN

CHIN State (Hakha)

Local:

HKYANG: Pranynai – ချင်းပြည်နယ် (my) (Hakha)

KACHIN

KACHIN State (Myitkyina)

Local:

KAGYIN Pranynai : ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ (my) + Wunpawng Mungdan : JINGHPAW Mungdaw (kac) (Mrackrina)

KAYAH

KAYAH State (Loikaw)

Local:

KAYAH Pranynai : ကယားပြည်နယ် (my) (Lwègaw)

KAYIN

KAYIN State (Hpa-An)

Local:

K´NYAW Kawseh : ကညီကီၢ်ဆဲၣ် (ksw) + KA.YANG Pranynai : ကရင်ပြည်နယ် (my) (Hpa-An)

MON

MON State (Mawlamyine)

Local:

MWAN Pranynai : မွန်ပြည်နယ် (my) + MON Bynei : တွဵုရးဍုၚ်မန်၊ ရးမညဒေသ (mnw) (Mawlamyaing)

RAKHINE

RAKHINE State (Sittwe)

Local:

RA.HKUING Pranynay : ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် (my) + RA-KHAI Pray-nay : ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် (rki) (Sittway)

SHAN

SHAN State (Taunggyi)

Local:

SHAN Pyinaal : ရှမ်းပြည်နယ် (my) + Miuuinn TAI : မိူင်းတႆး (shn) (Taunggyi)

12 Condominiums:

KARENNIA

Special Region Two of the Kayah State governed by the Karenni State Nationalities Peoples' Liberation Front : KSNPLF (Kayah Borders)

Local:

KAYARR Pyinaal Aahtuudays Nhait : ကယားပြည်နယ်အထူးဒေသ နှစ် (my) (Kayah)

KAWNGHKA

Special Region Five of the Northern Shan State for the Kachin Democratic Army : KDA (Kawnghka)

Local:

Kachin Democratic Army : KDA – Northern Shan State Special Region Five (en) + KAHKYIN Karkwalrayy Tauthpwal – SR5 : ကချင်ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ (my) + WUNPAWNG ShangLawt (kac) (Kawnghka)

KAYAN

Special Region One of the Kayah State governed by the Kayan National Guard : KNG (Kayan National Guard)

Local:

KAYARR Pyinaal Aahtuudays Tait : ကယားပြည်နယ်အထူးဒေသ တစ် (my) + Kayan National Guard : KNG (en) (Kayah Tait)

KOKANG

Shan State Special Region One : Special Region of KOKANG (Laukkai)

Local:

KOEKANT Aahtuudays : ကိုးကန့်အထူးဒေသ (my) + GUǑGǍN Dìqū : 果敢地区 (zh) (Laukkaing)

LAIZA

KACHIN Special Region Two of the Kachin Independence Organization (Laiza)

Local:

KAHKYIN Aahtuudays 2 : ကချင်အထူးဒေသ 2 (my) (Laiza)

LESSER MONGLA

MONG LA Special Region (Mong La)

Local:

MONGLA Sham Aahtuudays 4 : ရှမ်းအထူးဒေသ ၄ (my) + Miandian Dan Bang Dongbu Di Si Tequ : MENG LA – 缅甸掸邦东部第四特区 : 勐拉 (zh) (Mongla)

MOBYE

Special Region Three of the Kayah State : MOBYE (Pekhon)

Local:

KAYARR Pyinaal Aahtuudays 3 : ကယားပြည်နယ်အထူးဒေသ 3 (my) (Phekhon)

PA-O

Special Region Six of the Southern Shan State for the Pa-O National Organization : PNO (Hopong)

Local:

Pa-O National Organisation : PNO – Southern Shan State Special Region Six (en) + PA´O : ပအိုဝ်ႏစွိုးခွိုꩻ (blk) + PAOW Aamyoesarr Lwatmyawwatrayy Aahpwal – SR6 : ပအိုဝ်းအမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (my) (Hopon)

PALAUNG

Special Region Seven of the Northern Shan State for the Palaung State Liberation Army : PSLA (Namhsan)

Local:

PA LAUNG Pyinaal Lwatmyawwatrayy Tautmataw : ပလောင်ပြည်နယ်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော် (my) + Palaung State Liberation Army : PSLA (en) (Om-Yar)

PANGWA

Kachin Special Region One for the New Democratic Army-Kachin : NDA-K (Pangwa)

Local:

New Democratic Army-Kachin : NDA-K (en) + KAHKYIN Demokarayhcesait Tautmataw – KSR1 : ကချင်ဒီမိုကရေစီသစ် တပ်မတော် (my) (Pangwa)

SHAN-NORTH

Special Region Three of the Shan State for the Shan State Army-North : SSA-SR3 (Wan Hai)

Local:

Special Region Three of the Shan State – Shan State Army-North : SSA-SR3 (en) + Sham Yapany Tautmataw-Ayyamarkpong : SSA-N – သွ်မ္းျပည္ တပ္မေတာ္- ေျမာက္ပိုင္း (my) (Wanhai)