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Org: Myanmar. http://www. htm (accessed April 11, 2003). Myanmar’s Informative Resources on Culture, Travel, and Business. http://www. net/ (accessed April 11, 2003). . = noon GMT  Longest distances: 1,498 kilometers (931 miles) from south-southeast to northnorthwest; 880 kilometers (547 miles) from east-northeast to west-southwest (excluding the Caprivi Strip) 1  LOCATION AND SIZE Namibia is located on the southwest Atlantic coast of Africa, bordering Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the southeast.

9  FLAT AND ROLLING TERRAIN e vast deltas and flood plains of the Irrawaddy and Sittang Rivers form the heart of Myanmar and provide its most productive Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography 15 M YA N M A R EPD/Cynthia Bassett Mount Popa is the site of the annual Festival of the Spirits each spring. farmland. Bamboo grows extensively in many parts of the country. Myanmar used to be rich in rainforests, monsoon forests, and mangrove forests. Now, most of these woodlands are gone due to deforestation.

6  INLAND LAKES ere are many small lakes located in the northern and western portions of the Netherlands. In the northeast, more than thirty lakes are interconnected by canals. Some of the largest of these are Lake Fluessen, Lake Sloter, and Sneek Lake. Southwest Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography 33 THE NETHERLANDS T he Netherlands was once famous for its windmills. Though these structures once covered the countryside, now there are many fewer operational windmills than before the invention of steam engines and other, more powerful, sources of energy.

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