Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Naypyidaw
- Region
- Asia, South-Eastern Asia
- Population
- 54,850,648 (2025)
- Area
- 678,500 km²
- Currency
- Burmese kyat (MMK)
- Languages
- Burmese
- Calling code
- +95
- Internet domain
- .mm
- ISO codes
- MM, MMR, 104
- Time zone
- UTC+6:30
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Myanmar covers about 678,500 square kilometres. By area it ranks 41st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Zambia and a little larger than Afghanistan. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Thailand. Its centre lies at about 22° north, 98° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 54.9 million people live in Myanmar (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 27th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.67 percent of the world's people. On average there are 81 people to each square kilometre. About 31 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 67 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Burmese. A person from Myanmar is called Burmese.
Money and economy
The currency is the Burmese kyat (code MMK, symbol Ks). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 81.7 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,489 for each person (2025).
Time
Myanmar uses one time zone, UTC+6:30 (Asia/Yangon). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Yangon | 4,477,638 |
| Mandalay | 1,208,099 |
| Nay Pyi Taw | 925,000 |
| Hlaingthaya | 687,867 |
| Mawlamyine | 438,861 |
| Kalemyo | 348,573 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South-Eastern Asia
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Vietnam. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.