Houghton Mifflin Electronic Licensing - The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography: Places and Peoples of the World by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries

The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography
Places and Peoples of the World
by Editors of The American Heritage^® Dictionaries (Editor)

The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography is a comprehensive geographic dictionary that helps readers identify places and peoples of the world. It is an ideal companion to a Web news site that may carry news from obscure or unfamiliar places, since it includes entries for peoples and languages from all parts of the globe. This reference provides a wealth of current information about the world we live in. Entries provide detailed capsule histories for nations, regions, empires, and major cities from early historical times to the present. In addition, the Dictionary also covers physical geography and thousands of smaller cities and communities.

Key Features:

• More than 10,000 entries
• Includes the latest figures available for all U.S. and world populations
• Detailed, up-to-date maps
• Full pronunciations and syllable divisions
• Updated world currency table and measurements table
• Lists of the highest mountains, longest rivers, largest countries, and largest cities
• Unique coverage of the major peoples, ethnic groups, and languages of the world
• Reflects major changes in recent world history, e.g., Bosnia, Eritrea, Myanmar, E.U.

Technical Specs:

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Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography	[SGML]	3.9 MB	NONE	DTD, ENTITIES

Sample Entry:

Bor·ne·o (bôr'n

'). An island of the western Pacific Ocean in the Malay Archipelago between the Sulu and Java seas southwest of the Philippines. It is the third-largest island in the world. The sultanate of Brunei is on the northwest coast; the rest of the island is divided between Indonesia and Malaysia.— Bor'ne·an adj. & n.

Myan·mar (myän-mär') or Myan·ma (-mä'). Formerly Bur·ma (bûr'm

). A country of southeast Asia on the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Site of ancient Mon and Burman kingdoms, Burma was a province of British India from 1886 until 1937, when it became a separate colony. During World War II the Japanese invaded (1941) and occupied Burma until it was liberated by the Allied forces in 1945. Burma achieved independence from the British in 1948, since which time the country has had major problems with Communist insurgents and separatist ethnic groups. The civilian government was overthrown by a military coup in 1962 and again in 1988. Elections held in 1990 were overwhelmingly won by the opposition National League for Democracy, but the government declared the results invalid and jailed or put under house arrest many of the party's leaders, including Nobelist Aung San Suu Kyi, who was finally released in 1995. The country was renamed Myanmar in 1989. Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is the capital and the largest city. •Pop. 45,555,000.