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Rakhine State

Rakhine State, formerly known as Arakan State, is a state in . Situated on the western coast, it is bordered by to the north, , and to the east, the to the west and the of to the northwest.
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  • Type: State with 3,120,000 residents
  • Description: state of Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Arakan”, “Arakan Division”, “Arakan State”, “Arkan”, “Rahkaing”, “Rakhine”, and “Yagaing Taing”
  • Neighbors:

Rakhine State

Latitude
19.5213° or 19° 31′ 17″ north
Longitude
94.0072° or 94° 0′ 26″ east
Population
3,120,000
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
Open location code
7MFPG2C4+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4344756100
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1298852
Wiki­data ID
Q233838
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Rakhine State” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nanggroë Rakhine”
  • Achinese: “Nanggroë Rohingya”
  • Arabic: “أراكان”
  • Arabic: “اراكان”
  • Arabic: “اركان روهنجيا”
  • Arabic: “اركان”
  • Arabic: “راخين”
  • Arabic: “ولاية راخين”
  • Assamese: “ৰাখাইন ৰাজ্য”
  • Balinese: “Negara Wagian Rakhine”
  • Basque: “Arakan”
  • Basque: “Rakhine estatua”
  • Basque: “Rakhine”
  • Belarusian: “Ракхайн”
  • Bengali: “রাখাইন রাজ্য”
  • Burmese: “ရခိုင် ပြည်နယ်”
  • Burmese: “ရခိုင်”
  • Burmese: “ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Arakan”
  • Catalan: “Estat Arakan”
  • Catalan: “Estat Rakhine”
  • Catalan: “Rakhine State”
  • Catalan: “Rohang”
  • Cebuano: “Rakhine State”
  • Chinese: “Rakhine Chiu”
  • Chinese: “若开邦”
  • Chinese: “若開邦”
  • Czech: “Arakanský stát”
  • Czech: “Rakhinský stát”
  • Danish: “Rakhine State”
  • Danish: “Rakhine”
  • Dutch: “Rakhine Staat”
  • Dutch: “Rakhine-staat”
  • Dutch: “Rakhine”
  • Esperanto: “Raĥine”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Raĥine”
  • Estonian: “Arakani osariik”
  • Finnish: “Rakhine”
  • French: “Arakan”
  • French: “Etat d’Arakan”
  • French: “État d’Arakan”
  • French: “État de Rakhine”
  • French: “Rakhine”
  • German: “MM-16”
  • German: “Rakhaing-Staat”
  • German: “Rakhaing”
  • German: “Rakhine State”
  • German: “Rakhine”
  • Greek: “Ρακίνε”
  • Gujarati: “રખીન સ્ટેટ”
  • Hebrew: “ראקין”
  • Hindi: “अराकान”
  • Hindi: “रखाइन राज्य”
  • Hindi: “रखाइन”
  • Hindi: “रखीने राज्य”
  • Hindi: “राखिने राज्य”
  • Ido: “Stato Rakhine”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Arakan”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Rakhine”
  • Italian: “Stato Rakhine”
  • Japanese: “ヤカイン州”
  • Japanese: “ラカイン”
  • Japanese: “ラカイン州”
  • Javanese: “Rakhine”
  • Javanese: “Rohingya”
  • Kannada: “ಅರಕಾನ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Ракхайн”
  • Korean: “라카인주”
  • Korean: “아라칸 주”
  • Korean: “아라칸”
  • Lao: “ລັດຣາໄຄນ໌”
  • Latvian: “Rakhainas pavalsts”
  • Lithuanian: “Rachinų valstija”
  • Macedonian: “Ракајн”
  • Malay: “Negeri Rakhine”
  • Malayalam: “റാഖൈൻ സംസ്ഥാനം”
  • Marathi: “रखिन राज्य”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rakhine Chiu”
  • Nepali: “राखाइन राज्य”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rakhine”
  • Norwegian: “Rakhine”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ရခဲင်ႏခမ်းနယ်ႏ”
  • Persian: “ایالت راخین”
  • Polish: “Arakan”
  • Polish: “Rakhine”
  • Portuguese: “Arracão”
  • Rakhine: “Arakan State”
  • Rakhine: “Rakhine State”
  • Rakhine: “ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Russian: “Аракан”
  • Russian: “Ракхайн”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱠᱷᱟᱤᱱ ᱯᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱠᱷᱟᱭᱤᱱ ᱯᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Saraiki: “اراکان (راکھائن)”
  • Saraiki: “اراکان”
  • Scots: “Rakhine State”
  • Serbian: “Ракајн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Država Rakhine”
  • Shan: “ၸႄႈမိူင်းရၶႅင်ႇ”
  • Shan: “ရၶႅင်ႇ၊ ၸႄႈမိူင်း”
  • Sinhala: “රකිනේ රාජ්‍ය”
  • Slovenian: “Arakan”
  • Slovenian: “Zvezna država Arakan”
  • Slovenian: “Zvezna država Rakhine”
  • Spanish: “Arakan”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Rakhine”
  • Spanish: “Estado Rakáin”
  • Spanish: “Rajine”
  • Spanish: “Rakhine”
  • Swahili: “Dola la Rakhaing”
  • Swedish: “Rakhine”
  • Swedish: “Rakhinestaten”
  • Tagalog: “Estado ng Rakhine”
  • Tajik: “Ракхайн”
  • Tamil: “இராகினி மாநிலம்;”
  • Tamil: “இராகினி மாநிலம்”
  • Tamil: “ரஃஹினீ மாநிலம்”
  • Telugu: “రాఖినె రాష్ట్రం”
  • Telugu: “రాఖినె స్టేట్”
  • Thai: “Arakan”
  • Thai: “Rahkuing pranynai”
  • Thai: “ระขิ่น”
  • Thai: “ระขึน ปรัญนัย”
  • Thai: “ระขึนปรัญนัย”
  • Thai: “รัฐยะไข่”
  • Thai: “รัฐระกัน”
  • Thai: “รัฐระกิน”
  • Thai: “รัฐระเกียน”
  • Thai: “รัฐระขิง”
  • Thai: “รัฐระขิ่ง”
  • Thai: “รัฐระขิน”
  • Thai: “รัฐระขิ่น”
  • Thai: “รัฐระคีน”
  • Thai: “รัฐอะระกัน”
  • Thai: “รัฐอาระกัน”
  • Thai: “ရခုိင္‌ပ္ရည္‌နယ္‌”
  • Turkish: “Arakan”
  • Turkish: “Rakhaynya”
  • Ukrainian: “Ракайн”
  • Ukrainian: “Ракхайн”
  • Urdu: “راخائن اسٹیٹ”
  • Urdu: “راخائن ریاست”
  • Urdu: “راکھائن ریاست”
  • Vietnamese: “ARAKAN”
  • Vietnamese: “Bang ARAKAN”
  • Vietnamese: “Rakhine”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rakhine (estado)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rakhine”
  • Western Armenian: “Ռաքինէ”
  • Western Panjabi: “راکھائن ریاست”
  • Wu Chinese: “若开邦”
  • Yue Chinese: “若開邦”

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