Liberty, Virtue, and Progress of the Nation
World Maps for thought
Finding a place in the world
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ကွၢ်စိဃီၤယံၤယံၤ
ကွၢ်ထံအီၤလဲၢ်လဲၢ်
States Maps In Squaw Karen
ထံကီၢ်အမံၤ ကွဲးလီၤတံၢ်လၢ ကညီကျိာ်ဒီး ပာ်ဂၢၢ်ပာ်ကျၢၤက့ၤ အမံၤအသၣ်ဒီး လံာ်မဲာ်ဖျၢၣ်လၢ အၢသံ, အၣ်သံ, ဟၣ်သံ, က့ၤဖိ, ဖျၢၣ်ဆံး ဒ်သိး ပကွဲးထံကီၢ်အမံၤအသၣ်တဖၣ် ကမ့ၢ်တၢ်တပယူာ်ဃီဒီး ပကွဲးပသူထဲလၢ ကညီကျိာ်ကသ့.
ထံကီၢ်အမံၤ ကွဲးလီၤတံၢ်လၢ ကညီကျိာ်ဒီး ပာ်ဂၢၢ်ပာ်ကျၢၤက့ၤ အမံၤအသၣ်ဒီး လံာ်မဲာ်ဖျၢၣ်လၢ အၢသံ, အၣ်သံ, ဟၣ်သံ, က့ၤဖိ, ဖျၢၣ်ဆံး ဒ်သိး ပကွဲးထံကီၢ်အမံၤအသၣ်တဖၣ် ကမ့ၢ်တၢ်တပယူာ်ဃီဒီး ပကွဲးပသူထဲလၢ ကညီကျိာ်ကသ့.
By Lokal_Profil http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/appendix/software/worldmap/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3878724
Countries Name in Sqaw Karen script standardized.
standardized spelling name of countries.pdfWorld Political Map
ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဂီၤန့ၣ် အါတက့ၢ်တၢ်ပာ်ဖျါအီၤလၢ ထံကီၢ်တဖၣ်အဒူၣ်အဆၢ.
ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဘီမုၢ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢ ပာ်ပနီၣ်ဝဲ ထံကီၢ်ခဲလၢာ်၂၀၆ဘ့ၣ်. ထံကီၢ်အိၣ်ဒံးတဘျုးဘ့ၣ်လၢ စံၣ်ညီၣ်ပၢလီၤအသးဘၣ်ဆၣ်တၢ်တမ့ၢ် ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဘီမုၢ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢအိၣ်ဝဲတဘျုးဘ့ၣ်ဒံးန့ၣ်လီၤ.
World maps are usually set in term of states boundary. The United Nations currently recognizes 206 states.
Source: nationsonline
Fragile States Index
လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ချၢထံကီၢ်လၢ တဂၢၢ်တကျၢၤသ့ၣ်ဖးဟးဂီၤညီအကျါ, ထံကီၢ်လၢ အနးန့ၣ် ကီၤပံၤယီၤအိၣ်တဘ့ၣ်. အမံၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲ ဆိၣ်မၤလံယါ.
There is one country on earth that has a higher fragility index than that of Burma/Myanmar. The Somalia.
Source: https://fragilestatesindex.org
Corruption Perceptions Index, 2010
ထံကီၢ်လၢ အီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖးလၢ်ဆှိၣ်, အီၣ်တုာ်အီၣ်ကလီၤတၢ်အကျါန့ၣ် ကီၢ်ပံၤယီၤန့ၣ်လဲၤလၢညါ ဒီးတၢ်ဂံၢ်အီၤဒွးအီၤလၢ တၢ်လီၤတသြူးလီၢ်ပှီၢ်လၢ အကအိပူၤလံန့ၣ်လီၤ.
The thought traditions promotes a certain political culture, from which institutions are created to deter corruption.
The green maps indicate a certain shared intellectual tradition, the Greco-Roman influence. Institution alone cannot create a high deterrence against corruption.
World Military Bases Head Maps
ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဂီၤတဘ့ၣ်အံၤ ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်ဝဲဒၣ် သုးကလၢၤအိၣ်အါအလီၢ်သုးဖိတဖၣ်ဂဲၤလိအသးအါအလီၢ်ဒီးတၢ်လီၢ်တဖၣ်အံၤ မ့ၢ်ဝဲတၢ်လီၢ်လၢ တၢ်ဒုးတၢ်ယၤတအိၣ်ဘၣ်ဒီး တၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်တၢ်လဲၤထီၣ်လဲၤထီအိၣ်ဝဲအလီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.
The Peace Paradox - The more peaceful regions of the world, the more military bases, vice versa
Source: nytimes - Stravva's Heat Map
Global North and Global South
There are smaller states linger over the Global South but are counted as "Global North":
Israel, Singapore, and Taiwan.
ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ကလံၤထံးန့ၣ် တၢ်ကိးအီၤလၢ တၢ်လဲၤထီၣ်လဲၤထီတပှဲၤတုာ်ဒံးဘ. ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ကလံၤစိးတခီ တၢ်ပာ်ပနီၣ်အီၤလၢ တၢ်လဲၤထီၣ်လဲၤထီလၢ တၢ်ပာ်သူၣ်ပာ်သး, တၢ်အီၣ်ကုာ်အီပှဲၤ, တၢ်ဆဲးတၢ်လၤ, စဲးဖီကဟၣ်စဲအ့ၣ်ပီညါတဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.
Kingj123, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
High-Income Economies 2019 [World Bank]
ထံကီၢ်လၢ တၢ်ကူလဲၢ်မၤကၤ, တၢ်အီၣ်ကူၣ်အီပှဲၤအပတီၢ်ထီအလီၢ်, ဘၣ်တၢ်ထီၣ်ဒွးအီၤလၢ အပတီၢ်ဒီးပာ်ပနီၣ်အီၤလၢနီၢ်ဂံၢ်တဖၣ်.
အလါအဲးန့ၣ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲ ထံကီၢ်လၢ တၢ်မုၢ်ကျိၤဝဲၤကွာ်အပတီၢ်ဂ့ၤတဖၣ်.
By Danelet - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75669762
World Population Density
Kawthoolei lies within the most populous region of the world.
ကီၢ်သူလ့ၤန့ၣ် အိၣ်ဝဲဒၣ်လၢ ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိအိၣ်အါအလီၢ်ကဝီၤ, အဘူးကတၢၢ် ကီၢ်စံၣ်ဒီးကိၤလၤသူကီၢ် ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိအိၣ်ဝဲဒၣ်လၢ အကကွဲၢ်လၢ အကထိတဖၣ်.
https://worldinmaps.com/world/population-and-settlement/population-density/
US Military Presence Around the World, 2020
There is no other country on earth like the United States that projects its military power over the world by having military bases all over the world.
China, the world second largest economy, has commercial sea ports all over the world but only one military base in Djibouti.
Defense spending by the United States accounted for nearly 40 percent of military expenditures by countries around the world in 2022 [SIPRI].
ယူၣ်အဲးစ်အသုးတဖၣ် ရၤလီၤအသး လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဒီတဘ့ၣ် လၢ အကစၢ်ဒၣ်ဝဲတၢ်ဘံၣ်တၢ်ဘၢအဂီၢ်, တၢ်ဒိၣ်စိလၢ ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ချၢအဂီၢ် ဃုာ်ဒီး မုၢ်ကျိၤဝဲၤကွၢ်တၢ်ဒိၣ်စိဒီး တၢ်ဒီတဒၢပီၣ်လဲၣ်ပူၤအဂီၢ်.
Source: https://ubique.americangeo.org/map-of-the-week/map-of-the-week-mapping-the-global-u-s-military-bootprint/
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
အဲးတလဲတ့း ကလံၤစိး သိၣ်မှံၤလံာ်ဃံးဃာ်ကရၢ န့ၣ် မ့ၢ်သုးသိၣ်မှံၤလၢ အစိကမီၤဒိၣ်ကတၢၢ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ချၢ.
NATO is the world largest active military alliance that had major military engagements in the following countries:
Kuwait-Iraq (1991)
Bosnia and Herzegovina(1995)
Afghanistan (2003)
Iraq (2004)
Somalia (2009)
Libya (2011)
Source: https://www.mappr.co/thematic-maps/nato-map/
Port and Global Shipping Routes
Taiwan Strait is a very busy shipping route, even though there is a geopolitical tension exists.
Kyaukpyu (Arakan State, Myanmar) stands out as a commercial sea port in this map.
It takes (only) about 15 days for a ship to cross Pacific Ocean from Shanghai China to Los Angeles California.
Source: https://bambooinnovator.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/20130608_irm958_0.png
Global Flight Routes
Global Rain Forests
Kawthoolei still holds the last stronghold of Global Tropical Rain Forests that benefit the world in maintaining carbon balance and performing essential ecological functions.
https://mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/rainforests/charts/world-rainforests-map.jpg
World Happiness Report
Some people are happy without much freedom to make life choices, but overall, people with more life choices have higher happiness score.
World Time Zones
Kawthoolei Time Zone lies not in the +6 1/2 UTC (as currently practicing) but 7+ UTC, which is the same time zone that Thai, Cambodia, and Vietnam time zone. Easter
Kawthoolei territories as current KNU Administrative Control areas which means people of Kawthoolei are now waking up half hour later than the sun and the nature.
Source: https://www.gifex.com/images/0X0/2009-11-18-11170/Asia_time_zones.png
By Heitordp - Own work based on: BlankMap-Equirectangular.svg, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102198150