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Myanmar visited: Sumatra revisited.

By Huke, Robert E.
Publication: Focus
Date: Sunday, March 22 1998

Sumatra, Burma, is an island province of Indonesia. Located at the south of Myanmar off the coast of Thailand, Sumatra is characterized by images of Buddha, bells and various pagodas. The province's main crop is rice and is harvested by hand with a sickle.

(Editor's note: Burma was renamed Myanmar in 1989; Sumatra is an island province of Indonesia, a thousand kilometers south of Myanmar off the coast of Thailand. The author uses both names for each place in the following account).

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