Northeast is the direction you would be flying if u were to be going from Sri Lanka to Burma. Evan Ruiz i know you are copying this.

No, because the government takes too much money from the people and they kill the people if they dont like them. It is not a democratic government and the people dont have many freedoms. This is proven by the results of the recent protests there; journalists were kicked out of the country and communication with the rest of the world was cut off.

Myanmar was originally known as Burma, and that is still its official name. No legislature in Burma has actually approved the name Myanmar, which is derived from the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw and has been promoted by the military authorities in Burma.

It is the name of a country previously known as Burma and pronounced as MEE-YAN-MAR. Listen to the right pronunciation: http://www.pronounceitright.com/pronuncia.php?id_pronuncia=2314 There are 47,400,000 people in Myanmar.

Burma officially became the Union of Myanmar in 1989 however the new name is not universally recognised.

Myanmar comprises 261,970.3 square miles of total area.

the states are : 1 nagaland 2 manipur 3 mizoram 4 arunachal pradesh