Travel Burma Geography Introduction Recommend Us Burma Weather Burma Geography Burma, the Union of Myanmar, since 1989, is the land of the great Irrawaddy, or Ayeyarwady, River. Most of the country's people live in the fertile lowlands drained by the river. Myanmar is bordered with China, Laos, Thailand, the Andaman Sea, bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, and India.
Mountains cover Myanmar.
The north-south valleys of the Irrawaddy, the Salween, and the Sittang rivers separate its parallel ranges. The Irrawaddy and the Salween rise high in the Tibetan Highlands of China. The Irrawaddy Valley may be divided into three parts. Much of the broader middle valley is known as the dry zone because its rainfall is low. A range of low mountains, the Pegu Yoma, runs east of the Irrawaddy.