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Arakan

State of Myanmar (formerly Burma) on the Bay of Bengal coast, some 645 km/400 mi long and strewn with islands; population (1994 est) 2,482,000. Most of Arakan is mountainous or hilly land, originally covered with tropical forest, though this has now mainly been destroyed by shifting cultivation and has been replaced by a dense growth of bamboo. Only 10% of the area, mainly in river deltas, is cultivated, with rice and tobacco being leading crops. The chief town is Sittwe. It is bounded along its eastern side by the Arakan Yoma, a mountain range rising to 3,000 m/10,000 ft. It shares a short border with Bangladesh to the north. The ancient kingdom of Arakan was conquered by Burma in 1785.

The area was the scene of heavy fighting between British and Japanese troops during World War II as it provided a strategic route for invading Burma from India.



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More interesting than the marble Buddha itself are large pictures at the entrance to the platform, showing top military leaders paying their devotions, strikingly reminiscent of pictures displayed at the Maha Muni Temple in Mandalay depicting the eighteenth-century King Bodawpaya welcoming the sacred Maha Muni or Arakan Buddha image to his royal capital.
The state and the city: 1988 and the transformation of Rangoon by Seekins, Donald M. / Pacific Affairs
While there is a fair amount of material available about some of the ethnic groups, such as the Karen, Kachin and Shah, other groups, such as the Naga, Arakan and Pao, have virtually nothing written or published about their struggle.
A structural analysis of the ethnic insurgency in Burma by Redmon, Larry J. / Special Warfare
The Union of Burma is an ethnic mosaic in which the Borman ethnic group make up about 68 percent of the national population, while the remaining third is divided among a host of minority groups such as the Karen, Shan, Kachin, Chin, Mon, Pao, Arakan and others.
The strings of neutralism: Burma (1) and the Colombo Plan by Adeleke, Ademola / Pacific Affairs
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