In World War II, British prisoners are marched to a Japanese prison camp in western Burma.

Their sojourn in western Burma, into which they eventually drifted around the 7th century, lasted about ten centuries.

C. n. phryne (northern India to western Burma)

Myittha River is a river of western Burma.

Abeuk is a village in Ann Township in the Rakhine State of western Burma.

According to the myth, the spirit heads towards the east onwards to a lake called Rih Dil (a real lake in western Burma).

The Rakhine people of western Burma incorporate the oil lamp dance in many of their traditional dances, mostly devotional, to the Buddha.

Effects in East Pakistan are unknown, but Akyab in western Burma reported winds of 55 km/h (35 mph) as the cyclone approached land.

Four different strains of HIV are believed to have originated from Burma, along heroin trafficking routes in northern, eastern and western Burma.