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Myanmar Tourism
MYANMAR(BURMA)
Introduction
Myanmar well known us Burma. Myanmar sits at the crossroads of Asia’s great civilisations of India and China, and looks out onto the vast Indian Ocean next to Thailand.
One of South East Asia’s largest and most diverse countries, Myanmar stretches from the sparkling islands of the Andaman Sea in the south right up into the Eastern Himalayan mountain range.
To this day Myanmar remains one of the most mysterious and undiscovered destinations in the world. A land of breathtaking beauty and untouched things transforming into modernized world.
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Myanmar is an ethnically diverse nation with 135 distinct ethnic group officially recognized by Myanmar government. These are grouped into eight major national ethnic races such as
Kachin, Kayar, Kayin, Chin, Bamar, Mon, Rakhine, and Shan.

The "major national ethnic races" are grouped primarily according to region rather than linguistic or ethnic affiliation, as for example the Shan Major National Ethnic Race includes 33 ethnic groups speaking languages in at least four widely differing language families. Burmese is the majority and official language.
For the religion status of Myanmar, there are Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and others. But people can freely worship any religion as they desired. Among them Buddhist religious is much common in Myanmar as it is originally Buddhist country.
Myanmar traditions and customs are unique and they have large varieties of cultures. Such as Arts and heritages, for examples Pagodas, ancient buildings, and unique traditional festivals such as water festivals and events such as Fire balloon competitions are the most popular among the tourists. Buddha sculptures and monasteries are the significant of Myanmar and well known as “Golden Land”.
For economy status, Myanmar is a resource rich country and has large varieties of natural resources such as nature gases, timber, jades, petroleum and others resources but shortcoming of government controls

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