Arakan (/ˈærəkæn/ or /ˈɑːrəkɑːn/) is the historical geographical name of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly Burma). The region was called Arakan for centuries...

The Arakan Army (Rakhine: အာရက္ခတပ်တော်, romanized: Araka Tatdaw; abbreviated AA), sometimes referred to as the Arakha Army, is an ethno-nationalist armed...

The community claims it is descended from people in precolonial Arakan and colonial Arakan; historically, the region was an independent kingdom between Southeast...

[ɹəkʰàiɰ̃ pɹènè], Burmese pronunciation: [jəkʰàiɰ̃ pjìnɛ̀]), formerly known as Arakan State, is a state in Myanmar (Burma). Situated on the western coast, it...

Look up Arakan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Arakan is a historical region of Burma. Arakan may also refer to: Arakan Division, a British colonial...

On 13 November 2023, the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic resistance group active in the civil war in Myanmar, launched a military offensive against Myanmar's...

Arakan Campaign may refer to: Arakan campaign (February–April 1825), in the First Anglo-Burmese War Second World War: Arakan Campaign 1942–43 Arakan Campaign...

along the coastal region of present-day Rakhine State (formerly called Arakan), although Rakhine communities also exist throughout the country, particularly...

The Arakan Mountains, natively referred as Rakhine Yoma (Burmese: ရခိုင်ရိုးမ) and technically known as the Southern Indo-Burman Range, are a mountain...

Arakan, officially the Municipality of Arakan (Hiligaynon: Banwa sang Arakan; Cebuano: Lungsod sa Arakan; Maguindanaon: Inged nu Arakan, Jawi: ايڠد نو...

continued in northern Rakhine state with Mrauk U, among others, falling to the Arakan Army in February 2024. As of February 2024, thousands of the SAC's soldiers...

The Arakan campaign of 1942–1943 was the first tentative Allied attack into Burma, following the Japanese invasion of Burma earlier in 1942, during the...

1942–1943 dry season. The first was a small offensive into the coastal Arakan Province of Burma. The Indian Eastern Army intended to reoccupy the Mayu...

conflict in the northern part of Myanmar's Rakhine State (formerly known as Arakan), characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine...

Battle of Arakan may refer to: Arakan Campaign 1825, a British offensive in the First Anglo-Burmese War Arakan Campaign 1942–43, or the First Arakan Offensive...

The Arakan Liberation Army (Burmese: ရခိုင်ပြည် လွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်မတော်; abbreviated ALA) is a Rakhine insurgent group in Myanmar (Burma). It is the armed...

of Myanmar's Rakhine State since October 2016. Insurgent attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) have led to sectarian violence perpetrated...

British total control of Assam, Manipur, Cachar and Jaintia as well as Arakan Province and Tenasserim. The Burmese submitted to a British demand to pay...

The Arakan forest turtle (Heosemys depressa) is a critically endangered turtle species native to the Arakan Hills in western Myanmar and the bordering...

(Arakanese: မြောက်ဦး ဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံတော်) was a kingdom that existed on the Arakan littoral from 1429 to 1785. Based in the capital Mrauk-U, near the eastern...

the Burma Road in the last months of the war. In the coastal province of Arakan, Allied amphibious landings secured vital offshore islands and inflicted...

Arakan Division (Burmese: ရခိုင်တိုင်း) was an administrative division of the British Empire, covering modern-day Rakhine State, Myanmar, which was the...

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), formerly known as Harakah al-Yaqin (Arabic: حركة اليقين, lit. 'faith movement'), is a Rohingya insurgent group...

the border with Bangladesh and corresponds to the historical Kingdom of Arakan. The history of Rakhine is divided into 7 parts - the independent kingdoms...

The 2015 Bangladesh–Arakan Army border clash took place between 25 August 2015 and 26 August 2015 in the Bandarban District, near the Bangladesh–Myanmar...

The Arakan Army (Kayin State) (Burmese: ရခိုင်ပြည်တပ်မတော်) is a Rakhine insurgent group based in Kayin State, Myanmar. The Arakan Army's self-proclaimed...

world. During this period, Bengal's rule and influence spread to Assam, Arakan, Tripura, Bihar, and Orissa. Bengal Subah later emerged as a prosperous...

The Arakan River is a river located in the municipality of Arakan in Cotabato province in the Philippines. It is one of the tributaries of the Pulangi...

The United League of Arakan (ULA; Burmese: ရက္ခိုင့်အမျိုးသားအဖွဲ့ချုပ်) is an Arakanese political organisation based in Laiza, Kachin State, Myanmar....

nationalists. Tensions boiling in Arakan before the war erupted during the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia, and Arakan became the frontline in the conflict...