Bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos PDR, and Thailand, Myanmar is a vast country, situated in the South East Asia peninsula, between N. Lat. 9° 31' & 28° 31' and E. long 92° 10' & 101° 11' with an approximate area of 676,577sq. km [261,228 sq. miles].

It is an elongated piece of land 2,090 km [1,300 miles] long from north to south and 925 km [575 miles] at it's widest from east to west.

The total length of coastline starting from the southern tip of Bangladesh along the Bay of Bengal up to Victoria Point [Kawthaung] on the Andaman Sea is 2,832 km [1,760 miles].

The coasts and mountain barriers form natural frontiers with Bangladesh & India in the northwest, China in the northeast.

It is divided into seven States and seven Divisions, containing snow-capped mountains ranges, rise to 5881 meters atop Hkakaborazi, the highest peak in South East Asia, high plateaus, fertile central plains of rice fields along the artery of Ayeyarwaddy River (the biggest river with the length of 2000 km), islands, beaches and many others more.