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Using BBC terminology for capital city
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'''Burma''' (or ''Myanmar'') is a country in southeast [[Asia]] run by a pro-[[China]] military [[Junta]] widely condemned for [[human rights]] abuses. The capital is Naypyidaw. The [[United States]] and [[Great Britain]] have never recognized the Junta's renaming of the country on the grounds it is not the legally constituted government.
'''Burma''' (or ''Myanmar'') is a country in southeast [[Asia]] run by a pro-[[China]] military [[Junta]] widely condemned for [[human rights]] abuses. The [[United States]] and [[Great Britain]] have never recognized the Junta's renaming of the country on the grounds it is not the legally constituted government.
The new regime renamed the country '''Myanmar''' and moved the capital from [[Rangoon]] to Pyinmana in remote mountain region. <ref> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4416960.stm Burma's confusing capital move] </ref>
==History==
==History==