Official name of the country: Pyi-Daung-Su Myanmar Naingng-an-Daw
(Union of Myanmar)
Official language: Burmese
Business language: English

Official name of Parliament: Pyithu Hluttaw
(People's Assembly)
(The Pyithu Hluttaw elected on 27 May 1990 had by the end
of 1995 not been allowed by the military government to convene)

(updated in February 1996)