| Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, is also known as Burma or the Union of Burma. In 1989 the government changed the British colonial names for the country, some cities and rivers to the more original sounding Romanised version of the Myanma* names. What we call the new names today are in fact the older Myanma names used before the British colonisation. Today, very few Myanma people use the colonial names. Sometimes only out of politeness, because they believe that the foreigner may not understand them otherwise. The colonial name Burma had been chosen originally for this photo gallery, because that time the name Burma was more familiar in the rest of the world. Nowadays the name Myanmar is well known and also recognised by the United Nations. Therefore the name has been changed to "Myanmar (Burma) - Photo Gallery" in April 2007. This name change is not by any means political motivated, but reflects the higher score of the name "Myanmar" in the web search engines on the internet hence to improve this website's ranking. While the roman spelling of Myanma names is not always consistent, the spelling for most names is based on the latest Myanmar (Burma) edition of the Lonely Planet travel guidebooks. Below you find two alphabetical sorted lists showing the conversion from old colonial names to new Myanma names and vice versa. Included are only the names which you will find in the captions under the photos or elsewhere on this website. * Myanma (without the final "r") is the adjective form of the country's name used throughout this photo gallery. |
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