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  ARNO>> 1st Rohingya information and awareness Portal
ARAKAN once a sovereign and independent State, is now one of the states of the Union of Burma.3 Under different periods of history Arakan had been an independent sovereign monarchy ruled by Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims.
The Arakan Coastal Strip is a narrow, predominantly alluvial belt lying between the Arakan Yoma Mountains and the Bay of Bengal.
Arakan is seperated from the Chittagong region of Bangladesh by the river Naf.
www.rohingya.com /rohi/rohang.htm   (4086 words)

  
 Himalaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indo-Australian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the Tibetan plateau, which forces the plateau to move upwards.
The Arakan Yoma highlands in Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal were also formed as a result of this collision.
The Indo-Australian plate is still moving at 67 mm/year, and over the next 10 million years it will travel about 1,500 km into Asia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Himalayas   (2617 words)

  
 Myanmar - MSN Encarta
The Arakan Yoma range, with peaks mostly between 915 m (3,000 ft) and 1,525 m (5,000 ft), forms a barrier between Myanmar and the subcontinent of India.
The deltaic plains, extremely fertile and economically the most important section of the country, cover an area of about 47,000 sq km (about 18,000 sq mi).
Both the Arakan (in the northwest) and the Tenasserim (in the southwest) coasts of Myanmar are rocky and fringed with islands.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574495/Myanmar.html   (705 words)

  
 Andaman_Islands
There are many other safe anchorages about the coast, notably Shoal Bay and Kotara Anchorage in South Andaman; Cadell Bay and the Turtle Islands in North Andaman; and Outram Harbour and Kwangtung Strait in the archipelago.
The Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands to the south form part of a range of submarine mountains, 1130 km long, running from Cape Negrais in the Arakan Yoma range of Burma, to Achin Head in Sumatra.
This range separates the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea, and it contains much that is geologically characteristic of the Arakan Yoma.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andaman_islands.html   (4505 words)

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