Burma (Concert of Europe)

Burma (Burmese: Myamah) is a colony of, located in : it is bordered by and the  to its east,  to its north,  to its west, and the. Burma was added to the British colonial empire after almost fifty years of fierce wars and conflicts: once part of British India, it was made into an independent colony in the early years of the 20th century, and enlarged with some territories prievously part of India during the.

Burma is a land mostly characterized by dense forests and mountains, crossed by three main rivers: the Irrawaddy, the Salween and the Sittaung. Its European population is modest, and most of the population is composed of a 135 different ethnic groups, including the Shan, the Bamar, the Kayin and the Rakhine. Burma is subdivided into several provinces, each named after and using the language of its main ethnic group: English and Burmese, the language of the Bamar (the most numerous ethnic group), are used as lingua franca by the Burmese colonial government. The economy of Burma is predominantly agricultural, but there is a rising oil industry which is attracting more and more investments into the colony.