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15 character Burma (Myanmar)
30 character Burma (Myanmar)
Country name	Burma
Country name > Conventional long form	Union of Burma
Country name > Conventional short form	Burma
Country name > Former Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
Country name > Local long form Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar)
Country name > Local short form	Myanma Naingngandaw
Country name > Note since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw
ISO code	104
ISO long	MMR
ISO short	MM
Native names	Myanma Naingngandaw
Oceanographic code	12
Translation > Catalan	Myanmar
Translation > French	Myanmar
Translation > German	Myanmar
Translation > Italian	Myanmar
Translation > Portugese	Myanma
UN code	104

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