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Bago Region

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Bago Region (ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,; formerly Pegu Division and Bago Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the southern central part of the country. [1]

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Administrative divisions of Myanmar

Myanmar is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include: The regions were called divisions prior to August 2010, and five of them are named after their capital city, the exceptions being Ayeyarwady Region and Tanintharyi Region.

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Alaungpaya

Alaungpaya (အလောင်းဘုရား,; also spelled Alaunghpaya or Alaung Phra; 11 May 1760) was the founder of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar).

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Andaman Sea

The Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of the eastern Indian Ocean separated from the Bay of Bengal (to its west) by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and touching Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and the Malay Peninsula.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Arabs

Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

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Areca nut

The areca nut is the fruit of the areca palm (Areca catechu), which grows in much of the tropical Pacific (Melanesia and Micronesia), Southeast and South Asia, and parts of east Africa.

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Ayeyarwady Region

Ayeyarwady Region (ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,,; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division), is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River).

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Bagan

Bagan (formerly Pagan) is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar.

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Bago District

Bago District (ပဲခူးခရိုင်) is a district of the Bago Division in central Burma (Myanmar).

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Bago Region Government

Bago Region Government is the cabinet of Bago Region, Myanmar.

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Bago Region Hluttaw

Bago Region Hluttaw (ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်) is the legislature of the Burmese region of Bago Region.

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Bago, Myanmar

Bago (formerly spelt Pegu;,; ဗဂေါ), formerly known as Hanthawaddy (meaning "She Who Has Swans"), is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar.

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Bamar people

The Bamar (also historically the Burmese and Burmans) are the dominant ethnic group in Myanmar.

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Bean

A bean is a seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used for human or animal food.

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Bodawpaya

Bodawpaya (ဘိုးတော်ဘုရား,; ปดุง; 11 March 1745 – 5 June 1819) was the sixth king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British rule in Burma

British rule in Burma, also known as British Burma, lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a Province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Burmese Indians

Burmese Indians are a group of people of Indian origin who live in Burma.

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Burmese language

The Burmese language (မြန်မာဘာသာ, MLCTS: mranmabhasa, IPA) is the official language of Myanmar.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

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Chin people

The Chin people are one of the major ethnic nationalities in Burma.

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Chinese people in Myanmar

The Chinese people in Burma, Burmese Chinese, Tayoke or Sino-Burmese (မြန်မာတရုတ်လူမျိုး) are a group of overseas Chinese born or raised in Burma (Myanmar).

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Gulf of Martaban

The Gulf of Martaban (မုတ္တမပင်လယ်ကွေ့) or the Gulf of Mottama is an arm of the Andaman Sea in the southern part of Burma.

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Hanthawaddy Kingdom

The Hanthawaddy Kingdom (ဟံသာဝတီ နေပြည်တော်;,; also Hanthawaddy Pegu or simply Pegu) was the dominant kingdom that ruled lower Burma (Myanmar) from 1287 to 1539 and from 1550 to 1552.

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Helianthus

Helianthus or sunflower is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species Flora of North America.

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High Court

High court usually refers to the superior court (or supreme court) of a country or state.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Inwa

Inwa or Ava (or; also spelled Innwa), located in Mandalay Region, Burma (Myanmar), is an ancient imperial capital of successive Burmese kingdoms from the 14th to 19th centuries.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Kanbawzathadi Palace

Kanbawzathadi Palace (ကမ္ဘောဇသာဒီ နန်းတော်) is a palace in Bago, Myanmar.

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Karen people

The Karen, Kayin, Kariang or Yang people (ကညီကလုာ်, ကရင်လူမျိုး,; Per Ploan Poe or Ploan in Pwo Karen and Pwa Ka Nyaw or Kanyaw in Sgaw Karen; กะเหรี่ยง) refer to a number of individual Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic groups, many of which do not share a common language or culture.

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Kayin State

Kayin State (ကညီကီၢ်ဆဲၣ်,, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်,; formerly Karen) is a state of Myanmar.

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Kyaikpun Buddha

Kyaikpun Pagoda (ကျိုက်ပွန်ဘုရား)(in Mon, Kyaik (Buddha) & Pon (Four), is a pagoda in the Bago Division of Burma, in the city of Bago. Most notably, Kyaik Pun Pagoda is the home to the Four Seated Buddha shrine, a 90 ft (27 m) statue depicting the four Buddhas namely Kakusandha, Konagamana, Kassapa, and Gautama seated in four positions, sitting back to back to four directions. The Four Seated Buddha was built by King Migadippa of Bago in the 7th Century AD (tradition) and renovated by King Dhammazedi in the 15th century AD. Image:KyaikPunBuddha.jpg|Photographs of Kyaik Pun Paya Buddha Category:Buddhist temples in Myanmar.

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Legume

A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca, also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vernacular language, or link language is a language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both native languages.

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Magway Region

Magway Region (မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,, formerly Magway Division) is an administrative division in central Myanmar.

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Mandalay

Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar (Burma).

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Mandalay Region

Mandalay Region (မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,, formerly Mandalay Division) is an administrative division of Myanmar.

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MLC Transcription System

The Myanmar Language Commission Transcription System (1980), also known as the MLC Transcription System (MLCTS), is a transliteration system for rendering Burmese in the Latin alphabet, the romanization of Burmese.

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Mon people

The Mon (မောန် or မည်; မွန်လူမျိုး‌,; មន, มอญ) are an ethnic group from Myanmar living mostly in Mon State, Bago Region, the Irrawaddy Delta and along the southern border of Thailand and Myanmar.

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Mon State

Mon State (မွန်ပြည်နယ်,; တွဵုရးဍုၚ်မန်၊ ရးမညဒေသ) is an administrative division of Myanmar.

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Mongols

The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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Monosodium glutamate

Monosodium glutamate (MSG, also known as sodium glutamate) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, one of the most abundant naturally occurring non-essential amino acids.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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Myanmar Standard Time

Myanmar Standard Time (MMT) (မြန်မာ စံတော်ချိန်,; formerly Burma Standard Time (BST)) is the standard time in Myanmar, 6:30 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+06:30).

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National League for Democracy

The National League for Democracy (အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်,; abbreviated NLD) is a social-democratic and liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (Burma), currently serving as the governing party.

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Nypa fruticans

Nypa fruticans, commonly known as the nipa palm (or simply nipa) or mangrove palm, is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Pa'O people

The Pa'O (Pa-O, Paoh) (ပအိုဝ်းလူမျိုး,, or) is the seventh largest ethnic nationality in Burma with a population of approximately 2,000,0002,600,000.

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Pali

Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Peanut

The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Plywood

Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.

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Pyay

Pyay (ပြန်,; also known as Prome and Payagyi) is principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar.

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Pyay District

Pyay District (ပြည်ခရိုင်) is a district of the Bago Region in central Burma (Myanmar).

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Pyay Technological University

Pyay Technological University (PTU) (ပြည် နည်းပညာ တက္ကသိုလ်), in Pyay, is one of three senior engineering universities in Myanmar.

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Pyay University

Pyay University or the University of Pyay (ပြည်တက္ကသိုလ်) is a university located in Pyay, in the Bago Region of Myanmar.

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Rakhine people

The Rakhine people (ရခိုင်လူမျိုး, Rakhine pronunciation;; formerly Arakanese) are an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma) forming the majority along the coastal region of present-day Rakhine State (formerly officially called Arakan).

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Rakhine State

Rakhine State (Rakhine pronunciation;; formerly Arakan) is a state in Myanmar (Burma).

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Second Anglo-Burmese War

The Second Anglo-Burmese War or the Second Burma War (ဒုတိယ အင်္ဂလိပ် မြန်မာ စစ်; 5 April 185220 January 1853) was the second of the three wars fought between the Burmese and British forces during the 19th century, with the outcome of the gradual extinction of Burmese sovereignty and independence.

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Sesamum

Sesamum is a genus of approximately 20 species in the flowering plant family Pedaliaceae.

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Shan people

The Shan (တႆး;, ရှမ်းလူမျိုး;; ไทใหญ่ or ฉาน) are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.

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Shwegyin Dam

The Shwegyin Dam is a rock-fill dam on the Shwegyin River in Shwegyin Township of the Bago Region in Burma.

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Shwemawdaw Pagoda

The Shwemawdaw Pagoda (ရွှေမောဓော ဘုရား; ကျာ်မုဟ်တ) is a stupa located in Bago, Myanmar.

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Shwethalyaung Buddha

The Shwethalyaung Buddha (ရွှေသာလျှောင်းဘုရား; officially) is a reclining Buddha in the west side of Bago (Pegu), Myanmar.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Tabinshwehti

Tabinshwehti (တပင်‌ရွှေထီး,; 16 April 1516 – 30 April 1550) was king of Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1530 to 1550, and the founder of Toungoo Empire.

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Tapioca

Tapioca is a starch extracted from cassava root (Manihot esculenta).

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Taungoo

Taungoo (also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west.

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Taungoo District

Taungoo District (Taungngu, Toungoo, တောင်ငူခရိုင်) is a district of the Bago Division in central Burma (Myanmar).

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Taungoo University

Taungoo University or the University of Taungoo (တောင်ငူတက္ကသိုလ်) is a public liberal arts university, located nearNyaunggine Village in Taungoo, Bago Division, Myanmar.

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Teak

Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species placed in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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Tharrawaddy District

Tharrawaddy or Thayarwady District (သာယာဝတီခရိုင်) is a district of the Bago Division in central Burma (Myanmar).

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Thaton

Thaton (သထုံ) is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains.

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Toungoo dynasty

The Toungoo dynasty (တောင်ငူမင်းဆက်,; also spelt Taungoo dynasty) was the ruling dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from the mid-16th century to 1752.

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Win Thein

Win Thein, an engineer, is the chief minister of Bago Region, appointed by president Htin Kyaw in 2016.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

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Yangon Region

Yangon Region (formerly Rangoon Division and Yangon Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar.

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2014 Myanmar Census

Myanmar Census 2014 (၂ဝ၁၄ခုနှစ် လူဦးရေနှင့် အိမ်အကြောင်းအရာ သန်းခေါင်စာရင်း) was a nationwide census that took place between 30 March and 10 April 2014 in Myanmar (Burma).

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Bago Division, Pegu Division, Pegu Division, Burma.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bago_Region

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