Myanmar/Burma-Shan State

[GWR]

These Burmese Division & State maps look like they might have been produced by some Myanmese state agency and looks a bit dated; but they are still being by what I guess may be a state-approved tourist agency.

Myanmar Travel &Tours - State & Division Maps (http://www.myanmartravels-tours.com/state_division/map.asp?mapname=Myanmar)

The Homepage also has railway map links (http://www.myanmartravels-tours.com/)

[Yappofloyd]

These Burmese Division & State maps look like they might have been produced by some Myanmese state agency and looks a bit dated; but they are still being by what I guess may be a state-approved tourist agency.

GWR, Thanks for putting on all these maps links. Can you pls put this same info on the Burma section for the unintiated who may not look here.

Cheers.

[GWR]

http://www.dpsmap.com/

[GWR]

http://www.burmastar.org.uk/MAPS.HTM
http://www.burmastar.org.uk
You might want to look out for Bernard Ferguson's 'Beyond the Chindwin' for further background. Ferguson was a bit of a maverick who went on to advise on special ops in the 'Malayan Crisis'. I believe this book is on sale in Asia Books.

[GWR]

Historic maps of Burma & India on the following page:-
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/index.html

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V9_pg240b.jpg

[GWR]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/launch_ani_campaign_maps.shtml
The Burma Campaign is close to the bottom of the list.
Further Info on the Burma Campaign (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/burma_campaign_01.shtml)
Burma Railway@BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A1057619)

[GWR]

Fairly detailed map of Shan State for your delectation here; to download and view at a readable size in your own graphics program. Provided by Thailand's Office of Narcotics Control Board, http://www.oncb.go.th/emain.htm and presumably showing Opium Caravan Routes. (One feels there must be some reason why they discontinued the link showing Opium fields in Thailand in each province ;) ):-

http://www.oncb.go.th/document/images/Yaungkha%20Map.jpg

Also of interest must also be the following site which obviously follows the Tatmadaw PR line on drug eradication. They rightly point out the two-faced attitude from everyone since the the British on. And the KMT should certainly be held to account on this one. Naturally, they ignore their own highly dubious role:-

http://www.myanmar-narcotic.net/eradication/15drug.htm
This image is too low-res for any accurate viewing:-
http://www.myanmar-narcotic.net/eradication/a8.jpg

Also check out the homepage of Myanmar's Central Committee for Abuse Control for further strategically barefaced half-truths:-
http://www.myanmar-narcotic.net/

Including their very own heavily spun version of the Khun Sa saga and 'how he finally saw the wisdom of the Tatmadaw':-
http://www.myanmar-narcotic.net/MTA/

[GWR]

http://www.thaifocus.com/burma/images/mapmandalay.jpg

[GWR]

A secretive country which surprisingly seems to put a lot of maps online. As provided by DPS maps on:-

http://www.goldenpagodatravel.com/map_on_myanmar.htm

Overall map:-

http://www.goldenpagodatravel.com/images/map_on1.jpg

Northern:-
http://www.goldenpagodatravel.com/images/NorthernMyanmarW.jpg

Central:-

http://www.goldenpagodatravel.com/images/MAPpopularW.jpg

Southern:-

http://www.goldenpagodatravel.com/images/Mergui2w.jpg

Includes a link to a map showing the extent of the Mongol Empire at the time of Kublai Khan's Death; which covered large swathes of 'Mien': now part of Myanmar:-

http://www.goldenpagodatravel.com/images/mapskublaikhan.jpg

[GWR]

Courtesy of the RAF's 113 Squadron. Note that the linked maps load very slowly, as the website designer has put them all on the same page:-

http://113squadron.com/id130.htm

http://113squadron.com/2cc0c4a0.jpg

[GWR]

http://www.burmastar.org.uk/MAPS.HTM

http://www.burmastar.org.uk/images/900th_5.gif

[GWR]

From the Digital South Asia Library at the University of Chicago:

Creator: J.G. Bartholomew
Title: Burma (Northern Section)
Imprint: Imperial gazetteer of India. New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909.
Volume 9, opposite page 240.
Scale: 1:6,000,000. 1 in. to 94.6 miles.
Notes: Divisions of Burma: 1. Arakan Division, 2. Pegu Division, 3. Irrawaddy Division, 4. Tenasserim Division, 5. Mimbu Division, 6. Mandalay Division, 7. Sagaing Division, 8. Meiktila Division.
Imperial Gazetteer Map from Volume 9, opposite page 240
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V9_pg240.jpg

Creator: J.G. Bartholomew
Title: Burma (Central Section)
Imprint: Imperial gazetteer of India. New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909.
Volume 9, opposite page 240.
Scale: 1:6,000,000. 1 in. to 94.6 miles.
Notes: Divisions of Burma: 1. Arakan Division, 2. Pegu Division, 3. Irrawaddy Division, 4. Tenasserim Division, 5. Mimbu Division, 6. Mandalay Division, 7. Sagaing Division, 8. Meiktila Division.
Imperial Gazetteer Map from Volume 9, opposite page 240
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V9_pg240c.jpg

Creator: J.G. Bartholomew
Title: Burma (Southern Section) with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Imprint: Imperial gazetteer of India. New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909.
Volume 9, opposite page 240.
Scale: 1:6,000,000. 1 in. to 94.6 miles.
Notes: Divisions of Burma: 1. Arakan Division, 2. Pegu Division, 3. Irrawaddy Division, 4. Tenasserim Division, 5. Mimbu Division, 6. Mandalay Division, 7. Sagaing Division, 8. Meiktila Division.
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V9_pg240b.jpg

[GWR]

The weird thing about Myanmar is that despite the secretive nature of the Junta, there are some interesting maps of it available online; and not all of them placed there by the numerous anti-Junta websites.

That said, 'Salween Watch' is obviously one organization which finds dam & hydro projects on the Salaween (I believe the Junta prefer 'Thanlwin') somewhat less than transparent. The map page includes maps that show villages where forcible relocation has occurred; rape and murder being just two of the military tactics employed during these relocations. As always, Japanese & Thai companies seem to figure heavily in the projects that require such relocations:-

http://www.salweenwatch.org/maps.html

One of the included maps:-

http://www.salweenwatch.org/maps/map_images/hydroproject.jpg

Related thread that discusses Thailand's need to import electricity from its neighbors:
http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=2473

[GWR]

Mpa of Shan State on the http://www.shanland.org/ Shan Herald Agency for News site:
http://www.shanland.org/resources/state/map_of_shan_state.jpg/image_view_fullscreen

[Wisarut]

Freeedom for Shan State Series Chapter 1
http://www.manager.co.th/Daily/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9510000028995

Freeedom for Shan State Series Chapter 2
http://www.manager.co.th/Daily/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9510000029643

Freeedom for Shan State Series Chapter 3 (End)
http://www.manager.co.th/Daily/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9510000030148