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A. Myanmar’s people are mostly Buddhist at 87.9%, followed by Christian at 6.2%, Muslim at 4.3%, Animist at 0.8%, and Hindu at 0.5%. The Rohingya Muslims were stripped of their citizenship by Burma’s military rulers in 1982 and declared "non-nationals" or "foreign residents".
C. Bhutan, China and Nepal are close to Bangladesh, but India’s far eastern region wraps around Bangladesh separating it from every other nation but Myanmar. Bangladesh, Burma and India were all once ruled by the British empire.
B. The Bay of Bengal is the largest bay in the world with waters flowing straight out of the Himalayas through Bangladesh into the bay. It gets its name from the Bengal region which includes Bangladesh, the India’s West Bengal and Myranamar’s Rakhine State. The Rohingya are ethnically Bengals who speak a language related to the Bengali spoken in Bangladesh.
A. Bangladesh has nearly 158 million people living in an area slightly smaller than the state of Iowa. Myanmar is about five times the size of Bangladesh with a population of 55 million people.