• Myanmar (Burma) is situated in Southeast Asia, west of Thailand and Laos. In the north lies Yunnan province of China and in the west, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur of India and Bangladesh. In the south are the gulf of Martaban and Bay of Bangal of the Indian Ocean where  1200 miles long coast line of Myanmar is formed.

• The area of Burma is 261,790 square miles. ( Approximately the size of Texas)

• The southern extension of the eastern Himalayan forms the western mountain range of Myanmar ( Naga, Chin and Arakan mountains) starting from the north and ending in the delta of the major river, Irrawaddy.

• In the north lies the Eastern Himalayas where the highest mountain of Southeast Asia Hkakarborazi is located. Its height is ( 19296 ft) approximately the height of Mt Mckinley, about a thousand feet lower. Here also lies the  transitional zone between Indochina and the Himalayan region.

• The eastern part of the country there is a high plateau call the Shan Plateau which is continuous with the northern mountains of Thailand.

• The southernmost portion is called Tenesserim ( Tanintharyi) and is situated in the Malayan Peninsular where transitional zone between the Greater Sunda and Indochina region lies.

• We can say that Myanmar ( Burma) is situated within the 3 major regions of the world namely the Sundiac , Indochinese and the Himalayan regions.

• Except from the densely populated Irrawaddy, Chindwin and Sittang  river flood plains most of the country is covered with dense forest.

 

  Therefore Myanmar possesses a great extent of ecological diversity;

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• Marine biodiversity in the coastal areas,

• Coastal and inland mangrove,

• Tropical evergreen forest

• Moist deciduous, dry deciduous forests

• Dry and sub-humid forest of central Myanmar

• Himalayan montane forest

• Myanmar Thailand montane forest

• Numerous wetlands

• Grasslands

• Sundiac forests

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  That may be the reason why Myanmar (Burma) is the best bird-watching   country in mainland southeast Asia.

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• The country is also rich in culture. Early civilization dates back to the 1st century with evidences of the early Pyu kingdoms in Pyay and Vishnu.

• The first Myanmar kingdom with its capital at Bagan dates back to 11th century and lasted more than 200 years. The second Myanmar kingdom with its capital in Bago

• Bago (Pegu) was founded in mid 16th century.

• The last kingdom was founded in 1752 and ended with the colonization by the British after 3 Anglo-Myanmar wars in 1825, 1852 and 1885.