Arakan ( or ; Burmese: ရက္ခိုင် [jəkʰàɪɴ], Rakhine: အာရက္ခ [à.ɹəkʰa̼]), formerly romanized as Aracan, is the historical geographical name for the northeastern coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, covering present-day Bangladesh and Myanmar. Historically known as "Arakan" for several centuries, the region is now generally associated with the geographically smaller Rakhine State, situated in western Myanmar.
Arakan ( or ; Burmese: ရက္ခိုင် [jəkʰàɪɴ], Rakhine: အာရက္ခ [à.ɹəkʰa̼]), formerly romanized as Aracan, is the historical geographical name for the northeastern coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, covering present-day Bangladesh and Myanmar. Historically known as "Arakan" for several centuries, the region is now generally associated with the geographically smaller Rakhine State, situated in western Myanmar.
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