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in Myanmar">World Heritage Sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda" title="Shwedagon Pagoda">Shwedagon Pagoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandalay_Palace" title="Mandalay Palace">Mandalay Palace</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Symbols</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar" title="Flag of Myanmar">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Myanmar" class="mw-redirect" title="Coat of arms of Myanmar">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_anthem_of_Myanmar" class="mw-redirect" title="National anthem of Myanmar">National anthem</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/24px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/32px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Myanmar" title="Portal:Myanmar">Myanmar portal</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output 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title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Culture_of_Myanmar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Culture of Myanmar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> (formerly Burma) is a <a href="/wiki/Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhist</a> majority country with a significant minority of <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a> and other groups residing in the country. </p><p>Buddhism is a part of Myanmar culture. Section 361 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Myanmar" title="Constitution of Myanmar">Constitution</a> states that "The Union recognizes the special position of <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> as the faith professed by the great majority of the citizens of the Union."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to both the 2014 census of the Burmese government <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> is the dominant religion, of 87.9% of the population, practiced especially by the <a href="/wiki/Bamar" class="mw-redirect" title="Bamar">Bamar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rakhine_people" title="Rakhine people">Rakhine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shan_people" title="Shan people">Shan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mon_people" title="Mon people">Mon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese people in Burma">Chinese</a> ethnic groups. Bamar people also practice the <a href="/wiki/Burmese_folk_religion" title="Burmese folk religion">Burmese folk religion</a> under the name of Buddhism. The 2008 constitution provides for the freedom of religion;<sup id="cite_ref-state.gov_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-state.gov-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, it also grants broad exceptions that allow the regime to restrict these rights at will.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ethnic minorities practice <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> (6.2%, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Chin_people" title="Chin people">Chin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jingpo_people" title="Jingpo people">Kachin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karen_people" title="Karen people">Karen people</a>), <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> (4.3%, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Rohingya" class="mw-redirect" title="Rohingya">Rohingya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burmese_Malays" title="Burmese Malays">Malay</a>, Burmese Chinese and Burmese Indian), and <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> (0.5%, particularly by Burmese Indians).<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Burmese_folk_religion" title="Burmese folk religion">Nat worship</a> is common in Myanmar. Nats are named spirits and shrines can be seen around the country, either standing alone, or as part of Buddhist temples. Nat worship has a relationship with Myanmar Buddhism and there is a recognised pantheon of 37 nats. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Census_statistics">Census statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Census statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Note: the figures of Burma's Muslim population is divided into two. One that exclude <i>non-citizens</i> like <a href="/wiki/Rohingyas" class="mw-redirect" title="Rohingyas">Rohingyas</a> who are ordinary residents and the other that includes them. In latter, the Muslim population will only be as low as 2.3% of the whole population of Burma, according to the census conducted by the Burmese Government. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th style="background:Yellow;">Buddhist </th> <th style="background:DodgerBlue;">Christian </th> <th style="background:Green;">Muslim </th> <th style="background:DarkOrange;">Hindu </th> <th style="background:Chartreuse;">Tribal<br />religions </th> <th style="background:Crimson;">Other<br />religions </th> <th style="background:Black; color:White;">Not<br />religious </th></tr> <tr> <td>1973<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238854847">.mw-parser-output .percentage-bar{position:relative;border:1px solid #aaa;background-color:#fff;width:100px;max-width:100%;height:1.5em}.mw-parser-output .percentage-bar-fill{position:absolute;background-color:#dbdbdb;height:1.5em;width:50%}.mw-parser-output .percentage-bar-text{position:absolute;width:100%;height:1.5em;text-align:center;color:#000}</style><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 88%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">88.8%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 4%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">4.6%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 3%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">3.9%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.4%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 2%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">2.2%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1983<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 89%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">89.4%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 4%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">4.9%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 3%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">3.9%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.5%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.2%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 87%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">87.9%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.2%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 4%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">4.3%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.5%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.8%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.2%</div></div> </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 75px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion_by_state_/_region"><span id="Religion_by_state_.2F_region"></span>Religion by state / region</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Religion by state / region"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:0; top:0; border-width:0 200px 200px 0; border-color:Black; z-index:-1"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 15915.284869129px; border-left-color:Crimson"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Crimson"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:Crimson"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 5304.5364363156px; border-left-color:Chartreuse"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Chartreuse"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:Chartreuse"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; 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border-left-color:Blue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Blue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:Blue"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 105.1572499879px; border-left-color:Gold"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Gold"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:Gold"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Religion in Myanmar (2014 Myanmar Census)<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Gold; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> (87.9%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Blue; color:white;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> (6.2%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Green; color:white;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Myanmar" title="Islam in Myanmar">Islam</a> (4.3%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:DarkOrange; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> (0.5%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Chartreuse; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Tribal religions (0.8%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Crimson; color:white;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Other (0.2%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Black; color:white;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> No religion (0.1%)</div> </div> </div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> is the majority religion in all <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Myanmar" title="Administrative divisions of Myanmar">Regions</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kayin_State" title="Kayin State">Kayin State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kachin_State" title="Kachin State">Kachin State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mon_State" title="Mon State">Mon State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shan_State" title="Shan State">Shan State</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kayah_State" title="Kayah State">Kayah State</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-census_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most <a href="/wiki/Bamar_people" title="Bamar people">Bamar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shan_people" title="Shan people">Shan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mon_people" title="Mon people">Mon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rakhine_People" class="mw-redirect" title="Rakhine People">Rakhine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karen_people" title="Karen people">Karen</a> and many ethnic groups of Myanmar follow <a href="/wiki/Theravada_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Theravada Buddhism">Theravada Buddhism</a>. Some <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people" title="Chinese people">Chinese people</a> people follow <a href="/wiki/Mahayana_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahayana Buddhism">Mahayana Buddhism</a>. <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> is the majority religion in <a href="/wiki/Chin_State" title="Chin State">Chin State</a>. And There's a significant Christian population in <a href="/wiki/Kachin_State" title="Kachin State">Kachin State</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kayah_State" title="Kayah State">Kayah State</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-census_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most <a href="/wiki/Chin_people" title="Chin people">Chin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kachin_people" title="Kachin people">Kachin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karenni_people" title="Karenni people">Karenni</a> people follow <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1233514072">.mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers{counter-reset:rowNumber}.mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers tr::before{content:"";display:table-cell;padding-right:0.5em;padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right;vertical-align:inherit}.mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers.static-row-numbers-left 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tbody tr:not(:first-child):not(.static-row-header)::before{border-width:1px}@media all and (max-width:720px){body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers.wikitable tr::before{border-left-width:1px}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers.wikitable thead tr:first-child::before,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers.wikitable caption+tbody tr:first-child::before,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers.wikitable tbody:first-child tr:first-child::before{border-top-width:1px}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers.wikitable tbody tr:last-child::before,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .static-row-numbers.wikitable tfoot tr:last-child::before{border-bottom-width:1px}}</style> <table class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers static-row-header-text"> <caption>Religion by State/Region in Myanmar<sup id="cite_ref-census_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">State/Region </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Myanmar" title="Buddhism in Myanmar">Buddhism</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Myanmar" title="Christianity in Myanmar">Christianity</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Myanmar" title="Islam in Myanmar">Islam</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Animism" title="Animism">Animism</a> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Myanmar" title="Hinduism in Myanmar">Hinduism</a> </th> <th colspan="2">Other religions </th> <th colspan="2">No religion </th> <th colspan="2">Not stated </th> <th rowspan="2">Total </th></tr> <tr> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th> <th>num.</th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ayeyarwady_Region" title="Ayeyarwady Region">Ayeyarwady Region</a> </td> <td>5,699,665</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 92%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">92.2%</div></div> </td> <td>388,348</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.3%</div></div> </td> <td>84,073</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.4%</div></div> </td> <td>459</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>5,440</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>6,600</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>244</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>6,184,829 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bago_Region" title="Bago Region">Bago Region</a> </td> <td>4,550,698</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 93%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">93.5%</div></div> </td> <td>142,528</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 2%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">2.9%</div></div> </td> <td>56,753</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.2%</div></div> </td> <td>4,296</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>100,166</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 2%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">2.1%</div></div> </td> <td>12,687</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.3%</div></div> </td> <td>245</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>4,867,373 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chin_State" title="Chin State">Chin State</a> </td> <td>62,079</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 13%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">13%</div></div> </td> <td>408,730</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 85%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">85.4%</div></div> </td> <td>690</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>1,830</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.4%</div></div> </td> <td>106</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>5,292</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.1%</div></div> </td> <td>74</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>478,801 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kachin_State" title="Kachin State">Kachin State</a> </td> <td>1,050,610</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 62%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">62.2%</div></div> </td> <td>555,037</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 32%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">32.9%</div></div> </td> <td>26,789</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.6%</div></div> </td> <td>3,972</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.2%</div></div> </td> <td>5,738</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.3%</div></div> </td> <td>474</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>221</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>46,600</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 2%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">2.8%</div></div> </td> <td>1,689,441 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kayah_State" title="Kayah State">Kayah State</a> </td> <td>142,896</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 49%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">49.9%</div></div> </td> <td>131,237</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 45%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">45.8%</div></div> </td> <td>3,197</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.1%</div></div> </td> <td>5,518</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.9%</div></div> </td> <td>269</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>3,451</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.2%</div></div> </td> <td>59</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>286,627 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kayin_State" title="Kayin State">Kayin State</a> </td> <td>1,271,766</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 80%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">80.8%</div></div> </td> <td>142,875</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 9%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">9.1%</div></div> </td> <td>68,459</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 4%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">4.3%</div></div> </td> <td>1,340</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>9,585</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.6%</div></div> </td> <td>10,194</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.6%</div></div> </td> <td>107</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>69,753</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 4%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">4.4%</div></div> </td> <td>1,574,079 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Magway_Region" title="Magway Region">Magway Region</a> </td> <td>3,870,316</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 98%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">98.8%</div></div> </td> <td>27,015</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.7%</div></div> </td> <td>12,311</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.3%</div></div> </td> <td>3,353</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>2,318</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>1,467</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>275</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>3,917,055 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mandalay_Region" title="Mandalay Region">Mandalay Region</a> </td> <td>5,898,160</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 95%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">95.7%</div></div> </td> <td>65,061</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.1%</div></div> </td> <td>187,785</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 3%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">3%</div></div> </td> <td>188</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>11,689</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.2%</div></div> </td> <td>2,301</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>539</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>6,165,723 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mon_State" title="Mon State">Mon State</a> </td> <td>1,901,667</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 92%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">92.6%</div></div> </td> <td>10,791</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.5%</div></div> </td> <td>119,086</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 5%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">5.8%</div></div> </td> <td>109</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>21,076</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1%</div></div> </td> <td>1,523</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>141</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>2,054,393 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nay_Pyi_Taw" class="mw-redirect" title="Nay Pyi Taw">Nay Pyi Taw</a> </td> <td>1,123,036</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 96%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">96.8%</div></div> </td> <td>12,293</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.1%</div></div> </td> <td>24,030</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 2%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">2.1%</div></div> </td> <td>20</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>516</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>286</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>61</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>1,160,242 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rakhine_State" title="Rakhine State">Rakhine State</a> </td> <td>2,019,370</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 63%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">63.3%</div></div> </td> <td>36,791</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.2%</div></div> </td> <td>1,118,731</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 35%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">35.1%</div></div> </td> <td>2,711</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>9,791</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.3%</div></div> </td> <td>759</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>654</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>3,188,807 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sagaing_Region" title="Sagaing Region">Sagaing Region</a> </td> <td>4,909,960</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 92%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">92.2%</div></div> </td> <td>349,377</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.6%</div></div> </td> <td>58,987</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1.1%</div></div> </td> <td>89</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>2,793</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>2,928</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>1,213</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>5,325,347 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shan_State" title="Shan State">Shan State</a> </td> <td>4,755,834</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 81%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">81.7%</div></div> </td> <td>569,389</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 9%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">9.8%</div></div> </td> <td>58,918</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1%</div></div> </td> <td>383,072</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.6%</div></div> </td> <td>5,416</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>27,036</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.5%</div></div> </td> <td>24,767</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.4%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>5,824,432 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tanintharyi_Region" title="Tanintharyi Region">Tanintharyi Region</a> </td> <td>1,231,719</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 87%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">87.5%</div></div> </td> <td>100,758</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 7%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">7.2%</div></div> </td> <td>72,074</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 5%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">5.1%</div></div> </td> <td>576</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>2,386</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.2%</div></div> </td> <td>567</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>321</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>1,408,401 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yangon_Region" title="Yangon Region">Yangon Region</a> </td> <td>6,697,673</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 91%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">91%</div></div> </td> <td>232,249</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 3%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">3.2%</div></div> </td> <td>345,612</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 4%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">4.7%</div></div> </td> <td>512</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>75,474</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 1%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">1%</div></div> </td> <td>7,260</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0.1%</div></div> </td> <td>1,923</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>0</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style="width: 50px;"><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 0%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">0%</div></div> </td> <td>7,360,702 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Buddhism">Buddhism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Buddhism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Myanmar" title="Buddhism in Myanmar">Buddhism in Myanmar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burmese_folk_religion#Relationship_with_Buddhism" title="Burmese folk religion">Burmese folk religion § Relationship with Buddhism</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shwedagon-Pano.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Shwedagon-Pano.jpg/220px-Shwedagon-Pano.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Shwedagon-Pano.jpg/330px-Shwedagon-Pano.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Shwedagon-Pano.jpg/440px-Shwedagon-Pano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1824" data-file-height="2141" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda" title="Shwedagon Pagoda">Shwedagon Pagoda</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Yangon</a> - the most revered <a href="/wiki/Pagoda" title="Pagoda">pagoda</a> in Myanmar</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bagan,_Hpaya-thon-zu-Group.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Bagan%2C_Hpaya-thon-zu-Group.JPG/220px-Bagan%2C_Hpaya-thon-zu-Group.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Bagan%2C_Hpaya-thon-zu-Group.JPG/330px-Bagan%2C_Hpaya-thon-zu-Group.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Bagan%2C_Hpaya-thon-zu-Group.JPG/440px-Bagan%2C_Hpaya-thon-zu-Group.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1984" data-file-height="1312" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Payathonzu_Temple" title="Payathonzu Temple">Payathonzu Temple</a> is built in the <a href="/wiki/Mon_people" title="Mon people">Mon</a> style.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> in Myanmar is predominantly of the <a href="/wiki/Theravada" title="Theravada">Theravada</a> tradition, practised by about 90% of the country's population.<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the most religious Buddhist country in terms of the proportion of monks in the population and proportion of income spent on religion.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adherents are most likely found among the dominant ethnic <a href="/wiki/Bamar" class="mw-redirect" title="Bamar">Bamar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shan_people" title="Shan people">Shan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rakhine_people" title="Rakhine people">Rakhine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mon_people" title="Mon people">Mon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karen_people" title="Karen people">Karen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Burmese_Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Burmese Chinese">Chinese</a> who are well integrated into Burmese society. <a href="/wiki/Bhikkhu" title="Bhikkhu">Monks</a>, collectively known as the <a href="/wiki/Sangha_(Buddhism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sangha (Buddhism)">Sangha</a>, are venerated members of Burmese society. Among many ethnic groups in Myanmar, including the <a href="/wiki/Bamar" class="mw-redirect" title="Bamar">Bamar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shan_people" title="Shan people">Shan</a>, Theravada Buddhism is practised in conjunction monastic orders (not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Nikaya_Buddhism" title="Nikaya Buddhism">Nikaya Buddhism</a>) with the most notable being the <a href="/wiki/Thudhamma_Nikaya" title="Thudhamma Nikaya">Thudhamma Nikaya</a> accounting for 87% of Theravada monks.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mahayana_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahayana Buddhism">Mahayana Buddhism</a> is practiced less commonly today, often among Chinese. However, <a href="/wiki/Ari_Buddhism" title="Ari Buddhism">Ari Buddhism</a>, a form of Buddhism more related to the Mahayana or tantric traditions, was the dominant Buddhist tradition prior to the 11th century in Upper Myanmar.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Buddhism in Myanmar dates back to at least the third century from contact between what is believed to be the Mon people of Lower Myanmar and Southern Indian kings in <a href="/wiki/Nagarjunakonda" title="Nagarjunakonda">Nagarjunakonda</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Tambapamnidipa</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-US_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Legends and historical accounts written centuries after the fact claim contact as far back as the lifetime of the Buddha, particularly in the traditional account of the construction of <a href="/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda" title="Shwedagon Pagoda">Shwedagon Pagoda</a> 2500 years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The early Mon and Pyu became flourishing centers of Buddhism in contact with Southern India and Sri Lanka<sup id="cite_ref-:2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 11th century, the <a href="/wiki/Bagan_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagan Kingdom">Bagan</a> king <a href="/wiki/Anawrahta" title="Anawrahta">Anawrahta</a> converted to Theravada Buddhism after his conquests of the region driving out Ari Buddhism and incorporating traditional nats into the new Theravada sect that would become a solid part of Burmese history and culture. </p><p>Buddhists, although clearly professed by the majority of people in Myanmar, have their complaints regarding religious freedom. In 1961, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/U_Nu" title="U Nu">U Nu</a> made Buddhism the <a href="/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion">state religion</a> and caused dissent amongst Christian Kachin nationalists and was one of the main factors for the <a href="/wiki/Kachin_conflict" title="Kachin conflict">Kachin conflict</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1962, following <a href="/wiki/Ne_Win" title="Ne Win">Ne Win</a>'s <a href="/wiki/1962_Burmese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1962 Burmese coup d'état">coup d'état</a>, this policy and other policies promoting Buddhism were reversed.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A political party, the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Karen_Buddhist_Army" title="Democratic Karen Buddhist Army">Democratic Karen Buddhist Army</a>, split from the main Karen nationalist movement, the <a href="/wiki/Karen_National_Union" title="Karen National Union">Karen National Union</a> (KNU), after the Buddhists were denied to rebuild and repair the stupas at <a href="/wiki/Manerplaw" title="Manerplaw">Manerplaw</a>. The top leadership of the KNU were also dominated by Christians, although roughly 65% of the Karen are Buddhist. </p><p>Many monks took part in the 2007 <a href="/wiki/Saffron_Revolution" title="Saffron Revolution">Saffron Revolution</a> and were reportedly arrested by government security forces.<sup id="cite_ref-U.S._Department_of_State_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.S._Department_of_State-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Buddhism is the fastest growing religion and majority religion in Myanmar.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> However, all data about religious demographics is difficult. Although many must list their religion on government forms and identification documents, the number of adherents varies widely from source to source. The constitution provides for <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Myanmar" title="Freedom of religion in Myanmar">freedom of religion</a> but the government imposes restrictions on other religions and grants special preferences towards Buddhism. The Department for the Perpetuation and Propagation of the Sasana and state-sponsored <a href="/wiki/State_Sangha_Maha_Nayaka_Committee" title="State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee">State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee</a> support and regulate Buddhism in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Committee has the power to disrobe monks who have violated its decrees and edicts as well as Vinaya regulations and laws, and expel monks from their resident monasteries.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is also a deep, mutually legitimising historical relationship between the state and the Sangha (monkhood) with long held inseparability of Buddhism and politics within the country.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Christianity">Christianity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Myanmar" title="Christianity in Myanmar">Christianity in Myanmar</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> is practised by 6.2% of the population,<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CIA_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> primarily among the <a href="/wiki/Jingpo_people" title="Jingpo people">Kachin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chin_people" title="Chin people">Chin</a> and Karen people, and Eurasians because of missionary work in their respective areas.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> About four-fifths of the country's Christians are <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestants</a>, in particular <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Myanmar_Baptist_Convention" title="Myanmar Baptist Convention">Myanmar Baptist Convention</a>; <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholics</a> make up the remainder. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Hinduism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Myanmar" title="Hinduism in Myanmar">Hinduism in Myanmar</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hindu_temple_procession_cart,_Yangon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Hindu_temple_procession_cart%2C_Yangon.jpg/220px-Hindu_temple_procession_cart%2C_Yangon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Hindu_temple_procession_cart%2C_Yangon.jpg/330px-Hindu_temple_procession_cart%2C_Yangon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Hindu_temple_procession_cart%2C_Yangon.jpg/440px-Hindu_temple_procession_cart%2C_Yangon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>A Hindu procession in Yangon, Myanmar</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hindutempleyangon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Hindutempleyangon.jpg/220px-Hindutempleyangon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Hindutempleyangon.jpg/330px-Hindutempleyangon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Hindutempleyangon.jpg/440px-Hindutempleyangon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Shri Kali Temple in Yangon</figcaption></figure> <p>Hinduism is the fourth-largest religion in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>, being practised by 1.7% of the population of Myanmar, or about 890,000 people, in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Hinduism was practised by 0.5% of the population in the year 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most Hindus in Myanmar are <a href="/wiki/Burmese_Indians" title="Burmese Indians">Burmese Indians</a>. </p><p>Hinduism was predominantly pervasive in Burma during ancient times. Hinduism declined after Buddhism was introduced, although some practices and festivals remain part of Burmese culture. Both names of the country are rooted in Hinduism; Burma is the British colonial officials' phonetic equivalent for the first half of <i>Brahma Desha</i> the ancient name of the region.<sup id="cite_ref-tck_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tck-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Brahma" title="Brahma">Brahma</a> is part of Hindu trinity, a deity with four heads. The name <i>Myanmar</i> is regional language<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> transliteration of <i>Brahma</i>, where <i>b</i> and <i>m</i> are interchangeable.<sup id="cite_ref-tck_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tck-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Arakan_Mountains" title="Arakan Mountains">Arakan</a> (Rakhine) Yoma is a significant natural mountainous barrier between Burma and India, and the migration of Hinduism and Buddhism into Burma occurred slowly through <a href="/wiki/Manipur" title="Manipur">Manipur</a> and by South Asian seaborne traders. Hinduism greatly influenced the royal court of Burmese kings in pre-colonial times, as seen in the architecture of cities such as <a href="/wiki/Bagan" title="Bagan">Bagan</a>. Likewise, the <a href="/wiki/Burmese_language" title="Burmese language">Burmese language</a> adopted many words from <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pali" title="Pali">Pali</a>, many of which relate to religion. While ancient and medieval arrival of ideas and culture fusion transformed Burma over time, it is in 19th and 20th century that over a million Hindu workers were brought in by British colonial government to serve in plantations and mines. The British also felt that surrounding the European residential centre with Indian immigrants provided a buffer and a degree of security from tribal theft and raids. According to 1931 census, 55% of Rangoon's (<a href="/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Yangon</a>) population were Indian migrants, mostly Hindus.<sup id="cite_ref-dms_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dms-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After independence from Britain, Burma Socialist Programme Party under <a href="/wiki/Ne_Win" title="Ne Win">Ne Win</a> adopted xenophobic policies and expelled 300,000 Indian ethnic people (Hindus and Buddhists), along with 100,000 Chinese, from Burma between 1963 and 1967. The Indian policy of encouraging democratic protests in Burma increased persecution of Hindus, as well as led to Burmese retaliatory support of left-leaning rebel groups in northeastern states of India.<sup id="cite_ref-dms_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dms-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the 1990s, the opening of Burma and its greater economic engagement has led to general improvement in the acceptance of Hindus and other minority religions in Myanmar. </p><p>Aspects of Hinduism continue in Burma today, even in the majority Buddhist culture. For example, Thagyamin is worshipped whose origins are in the Hindu god <a href="/wiki/Indra" title="Indra">Indra</a>. Burmese literature has also been enriched by Hinduism, including the Burmese adaptation of the Ramayana, called <a href="/wiki/Yama_Zatdaw" title="Yama Zatdaw">Yama Zatdaw</a>. Many Hindu gods are likewise worshipped by many Burmese people, such as <a href="/wiki/Saraswati" title="Saraswati">Saraswati</a> (known as Thuyathadi in Burmese), the goddess of knowledge, who is often worshipped before examinations; Shiva is called <i>Paramizwa</i>; Vishnu is called <i>Withano</i>, and others. Many of these ideas are part of thirty seven <a href="/wiki/Nat_(spirit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nat (spirit)">Nat</a> or deities found in Burmese culture.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In modern Myanmar, most <a href="/wiki/Burmese_Indians" title="Burmese Indians">Hindus</a> are found in the urban centres of <a href="/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Yangon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mandalay" title="Mandalay">Mandalay</a>. Ancient Hindu temples are present in other parts of Burma, such as the 11th-century <a href="/wiki/Nathlaung_Kyaung_Temple" title="Nathlaung Kyaung Temple">Nathlaung Kyaung Temple</a> dedicated to Vishnu in <a href="/wiki/Bagan" title="Bagan">Bagan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islam">Islam</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Islam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Myanmar" title="Islam in Myanmar">Islam in Myanmar</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yin_Mar_Bin,_Myanmar_(Burma)_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Yin_Mar_Bin%2C_Myanmar_%28Burma%29_-_panoramio.jpg/220px-Yin_Mar_Bin%2C_Myanmar_%28Burma%29_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Yin_Mar_Bin%2C_Myanmar_%28Burma%29_-_panoramio.jpg/330px-Yin_Mar_Bin%2C_Myanmar_%28Burma%29_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Yin_Mar_Bin%2C_Myanmar_%28Burma%29_-_panoramio.jpg/440px-Yin_Mar_Bin%2C_Myanmar_%28Burma%29_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3912" data-file-height="2443" /></a><figcaption>A rural <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yinmabin" title="Yinmabin">Yinmabin</a>, Sagaing Region</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, mainly of the <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> sect, is practised by 2.3% of the population according to the government census of latest 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TUR_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TUR-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Muslim population faces religious persecution in Myanmar. </p><p>Around 800,000 <a href="/wiki/Rohingya_people" title="Rohingya people">Muslim Rohingyas</a> live in Burma with around 80% living in the Western state of <a href="/wiki/Rakhine_State" title="Rakhine State">Rakhine</a>. The Military of Myanmar has been killing and driving the Rohingyas out of the country as part of their on and off attempt since the 1940s to create a Muslim-free land in Western Burma.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1970s, uprisings appeared again during the period of the <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Bangladesh Liberation War</a> in 1971. Recently, groups in the area, according to various media reports, aimed to create northern part of <a href="/wiki/Rakhine_State" title="Rakhine State">Arakan</a> as an independent or autonomous state.<sup id="cite_ref-BD-1_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BD-1-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BD-2_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BD-2-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Successive governments, both democratic and military, did not grant the citizenship of the Muslim <a href="/wiki/Rohingya_people" title="Rohingya people">Rohingya</a> people of Northern Rakhine (Arakan) state. Their claim to citizenship has been marred by disputes with the ethnic Arakanese, who are mainly Buddhists. In 2017, the military carried out a crackdown on Rohingya people in Rakhine State; in 2022, the US Secretary of State determined that members of the Burmese military had committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An estimated 1.6 million Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, Thailand and India; by the end of 2022, the UNHCR reported that approximately 148,000 Rohingya were being held in displacement camps in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/US_State_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="US State Department">US State Department</a>'s 2022 international religious freedom report, the country's Muslim population is approximately 4% of the total populace.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Muslims are spread across the country in small communities. </p> <dl><dt>Main groups</dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ul><li>The British <a href="/wiki/Burmese_Indians#Muslims" title="Burmese Indians">Indian-descended Muslims</a> live mainly in <a href="/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Yangon</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohingya_people" title="Rohingya people">Rohingyas</a>, a minority <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">ethnic group</a> in northern <a href="/wiki/Rakhine_State" title="Rakhine State">Rakhine State</a>, Western <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Burma</a>. The Rohingya population is mostly concentrated in five northern townships of Rakhine State: <a href="/wiki/Maungdaw" title="Maungdaw">Maungdaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buthidaung" title="Buthidaung">Buthidaung</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rathedaung" title="Rathedaung">Rathedaung</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sittwe" title="Sittwe">Akyab</a>, Sandway, Tongo, Shokepro, Rashong Island and <a href="/wiki/Kyauktaw" title="Kyauktaw">Kyauktaw</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panthay" class="mw-redirect" title="Panthay">Panthay</a>, Burmese Chinese Muslims and Chinese <a href="/wiki/Hui_people" title="Hui people">Hui people</a></li> <li>Muslims of Malay ancestry in <a href="/wiki/Kawthaung" title="Kawthaung">Kawthaung</a>. People of Malay ancestry are locally called <i>Pashu</i> regardless of religion.</li> <li>Zerbadi Muslims are descendent community of intermarriages between foreign <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> (<a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle Eastern</a>) males and Burmese females.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamein" title="Kamein">Kamein</a> people, an ethnic minority in Rakhine State.</li> <li>Indo-Burmese, <a href="/wiki/Persian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian people">Persians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arab_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab people">Arabs</a> and various other smaller groups.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judaism">Judaism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Judaism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Myanmar" title="History of the Jews in Myanmar">Myanmar's Jews</a> once numbered in the thousands, there are currently a few dozen Jews in <a href="/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Yangon</a> (Rangoon), where the country's only <a href="/wiki/Synagogue" title="Synagogue">synagogue</a> is located. The <a href="/wiki/Musmeah_Yeshua_Synagogue" title="Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue">Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue</a> serves the dozen families left as well as Jewish tourists and foreign workers, but not many show up for daily <a href="/wiki/Minyan" title="Minyan">minyan</a>. Most Jews left Myanmar at the commencement of the Second World War, and most of the Jews who still remained in Myanmar after World War II ended in 1945 left the country after General <a href="/wiki/Ne_Win" title="Ne Win">Ne Win</a> took it over in 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2023, the <a href="/wiki/Pabedan_Township" title="Pabedan Township">Pabedan Township</a> administration recognises the synagogue as a religious building within the township but reported zero Jews or followers of "Other" religions in its population count.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Freedom_of_religion">Freedom of religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Myanmar&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Freedom of religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Myanmar" title="Freedom of religion in Myanmar">Freedom of religion in Myanmar</a></div> <p>In 2022, the country was scored 1 out of 4 for religious freedom- while the constitution provides for freedom of religion, the government, in practice, interferes with religious groups and discriminates against minority groups through actions such as refusing permission for gatherings, restricting <a href="/wiki/Proselytism" title="Proselytism">proselytisation</a> and allowing the Anti-Muslim <a href="/wiki/Patriotic_Association_of_Myanmar" title="Patriotic Association of Myanmar">Ma Ba Tha</a> organisation to establish "Muslim-free" villages.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, the country was ranked as the 14th worst place in the world to be a Christian. Christian minorities are targeted and disproportionately affected by the <a href="/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%93present)" title="Myanmar civil war (2021–present)">ongoing 2021 Myanmar civil war</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Particularly, this targeted violence is worst in Christian-majority <a href="/wiki/Chin_State" title="Chin State">Chin State</a> where many Christians are forced to flee into neighboring countries, particularly to Northeastern India.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2023, Christian Solidarity Worldwide noted the arrests of 20,000 people since <a href="/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2021 Myanmar coup d'état">the coup</a>, the displacement of 1.3 million people and the destruction of churches, 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Myanmar+UNFPA&rft.atitle=Myanmar+population+by+religion&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmyanmar.unfpa.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpub-pdf%2FUNION_2-C_religion_EN_0.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+Myanmar" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/table-religious-composition-by-country-in-numbers/">"Table: Religious Composition by Country, in Numbers | Pew Research Center"</a>. Pewforum.org. 18 December 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 May</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Table%3A+Religious+Composition+by+Country%2C+in+Numbers+%26%23124%3B+Pew+Research+Center&rft.pub=Pewforum.org&rft.date=2012-12-18&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewforum.org%2F2012%2F12%2F18%2Ftable-religious-composition-by-country-in-numbers%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+Myanmar" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tck-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tck_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tck_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Toʻ Cinʻ Khu, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tEI6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4">Elementary Hand-book of the Burmese Language</a></i>, p. 4, at <a href="/wiki/Google_Books" title="Google Books">Google Books</a>, pp. iv-v</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">in both Talaing and Burmese languages; <i>Prome</i> is similarly derived from Brohm or Brahma.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dms-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dms_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dms_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Donald M. Seekins (2006), Historical Dictionary of Burma, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0810854765" title="Special:BookSources/978-0810854765">978-0810854765</a>, pp. 216-220</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thant Myint-U (2001), The Making of Modern Burma, Cambridge University Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521799140" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521799140">978-0521799140</a>, pp. 27-47</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/census-data-shows-myanmar-muslim-population-has-fallen/612764">"Census data shows Myanmar Muslim population has fallen"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Census+data+shows+Myanmar+Muslim+population+has+fallen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aa.com.tr%2Fen%2Fasia-pacific%2Fcensus-data-shows-myanmar-muslim-population-has-fallen%2F612764&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+Myanmar" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120718074439/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7a3oPcHSvWSpkXzzSruvNZfdPMA?docId=CNG.8d52d8a6dba835c4ac54aab3f3c8031b.571">"Myanmar, Bangladesh leaders 'to discuss Rohingya'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. 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dynasty">Toungoo dynasty</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Toungoo_Empire" title="First Toungoo Empire">First Toungoo Empire</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Restored_Hanthawaddy_Kingdom" title="Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom">Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konbaung_dynasty" title="Konbaung dynasty">Konbaung dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shan_States" title="Shan States">Shan States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karenni_States" title="Karenni States">Karenni States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_rule_in_Burma" title="British rule in Burma">British rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Burma" title="Japanese occupation of Burma">Japanese occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Burma_(1948%E2%80%931962)" title="Union of Burma (1948–1962)">Union of Burma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_the_Union_of_Burma" title="Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma">Socialist Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8888_Uprising" title="8888 Uprising">8888 Uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Peace_and_Development_Council" title="State Peace and Development Council">State Peace and Development Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saffron_Revolution" title="Saffron Revolution">2007 protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932015_Myanmar_political_reforms" title="2011–2015 Myanmar political reforms">2011–2015 political reforms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2021 Myanmar coup d'état">2021 coup</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_protests_(2021%E2%80%93present)" title="Myanmar protests (2021–present)">Protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%93present)" title="Myanmar civil war (2021–present)">Civil war</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Myanmar" title="Geography of Myanmar">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Borders_of_Myanmar" title="Template:Borders of Myanmar">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Myanmar" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Myanmar">Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Myanmar" title="Climate of Myanmar">Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deforestation_in_Myanmar" title="Deforestation in Myanmar">Deforestation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ecoregions_in_Myanmar" title="List of ecoregions in Myanmar">Ecoregions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Islands_of_Myanmar" title="Category:Islands of Myanmar">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Lakes_of_Myanmar" title="Category:Lakes of Myanmar">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountains_in_Myanmar" title="List of mountains in Myanmar">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_Myanmar" title="List of protected areas of Myanmar">Protected areas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Myanmar" title="List of rivers of Myanmar">Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wildlife_of_Myanmar" title="Wildlife of Myanmar">Wildlife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Myanmar" title="List of earthquakes in Myanmar">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Myanmar" title="List of volcanoes in Myanmar">Volcanoes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Myanmar" title="Politics of Myanmar">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Myanmar" title="Administrative divisions of Myanmar">Administrative divisions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Myanmar" title="Constitution of Myanmar">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Myanmar" title="Corruption in Myanmar">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Myanmar" title="Elections in Myanmar">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Myanmar" title="Foreign relations of Myanmar">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Myanmar" title="Human rights in Myanmar">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Myanmar" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Myanmar">LGBT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Myanmar" title="Women's rights in Myanmar">Women's rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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Myanmar">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Myanmar" title="Prime Minister of Myanmar">Prime Minister</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Myanmar" title="List of prime ministers of Myanmar">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Myanmar" title="Economy of Myanmar">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_Myanmar" title="Agriculture in Myanmar">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Myanmar" title="Central Bank of Myanmar">Central bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opium_production_in_Myanmar" title="Opium production in Myanmar">Opium production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Myanmar" title="Telecommunications in Myanmar">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_kyat" title="Myanmar kyat">Myanmar kyat (currency)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Myanmar" title="Tourism in Myanmar">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Myanmar" title="Transport in Myanmar">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_units_of_measurement" title="Myanmar units of measurement">Units of measurement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_Myanmar" title="Category:Society of Myanmar">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" 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href="/wiki/Women_in_Myanmar" title="Women in Myanmar">Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prostitution_in_Myanmar" title="Prostitution in Myanmar">Prostitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_Myanmar" title="Sex trafficking in Myanmar">Sex trafficking</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Myanmar" title="Culture of Myanmar">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Art_of_Myanmar" title="Art of Myanmar">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaba_Ma_Kyei" title="Kaba Ma Kyei">Anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Seal_of_Myanmar" title="State Seal of Myanmar">State Seal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_capitals_of_Myanmar" title="List of capitals of Myanmar">Capitals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_calendar" title="Burmese calendar">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_zodiac" title="Burmese zodiac">Zodiac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Myanmar" title="Censorship in Myanmar">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Myanmar" title="Cinema of Myanmar">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_clothing" title="Burmese clothing">Clothing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_cuisine" title="Burmese cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_dance" title="Burmese dance">Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_Myanmar" title="Names of Myanmar">Etymology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_festivals" class="mw-redirect" title="Burmese festivals">Festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar" title="Flag of Myanmar">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythical_creatures_in_Burmese_folklore" title="Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore">Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_literature" title="Burmese literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a 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