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  2. Myanmar nationality law - Wikipedia

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    The Nationality law of Myanmar currently recognises three categories of citizens, namely citizen, associate citizen and naturalised citizen, according to the 1982 Citizenship Law. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Citizens, as defined by the 1947 Constitution, are persons who belong to an "indigenous race", have a grandparent from an "indigenous race", are children ...

  3. List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

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    The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents.A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy".

  4. Myanmar - Wikipedia

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    Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. [18]

  5. Names of Myanmar - Wikipedia

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    According to the replacement, the name of the dominant ethnicity of Burma, whose people speak the Burmese language, is "Bamar" (again, final "r" only added to denote a long "a" in Burmese). Thus, Myanmar is a country inhabited by the Bamars plus many minorities; and the Bamars and minorities are collectively known as Myanma people. [citation ...

  6. British rule in Burma - Wikipedia

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    Shan States; Chun tracts; Kachin tracts; The "Frontier Areas", also known as the "Excluded Areas" or the "Scheduled Areas", compose the majority of states within Burma today. They were administered separately by the British with a Burma Frontier Service and later united with Burma proper to form Myanmar's geographic composition today.

  7. Burmese people in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Migrants from both the Bamar and Karen ethnic groups constitute parts of Burmese communities in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] A large proportion of Burmese people who migrated to the country before 2011 were from the ethnic minority group of Karens, who sought to flee the military rule in Burma which was formed and led by ethnic Burmans.

  8. Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia

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    Has four individual nations or constituent countries within the UK: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. All, except for England, has a devolved form of government in Belfast, Cardiff, and Edinburgh. Vanuatu: 30 July 1980 Oceania: Melanesia: 334,506 Unitary Westminster republic Formerly the New Hebrides.

  9. Burmese people - Wikipedia

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    An ethnolinguistic map of Myanmar from 1972. Similar to the concepts of pribumi in Indonesia and bumiputera in Malaysia, Burmese society categorises indigenous peoples who had historically lived in what is now modern-day Myanmar as taing-yin-tha (တိုင်းရင်းသား), [22] which is typically translated as 'national race' or 'indigenous race.'