Southern Asia, 04 Jan 1948: Independence of Burma
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Political map of South & Southwest Asia on 04 Jan 1948 (Independence: Independence of Burma), showing the following events: Occupation of Junagadh; UN Partition Plan for Palestine; Civil war in Mandatory Palestine; Al-Wathbah uprising; Independence of Burma.

I n d i a(Br. dom.)

S o v i e t U n i o n

Republic of
Indonesia

Pakistan(Br. dom.)

Ma
Family(Nat. Ch. infl.)

Nationalist
China

Anglo-
Egyptian
Sudan(Br. adm.)

Br. Som.(Br. prot.)

Muscat
& Oman(Br. prot.)

Aden prot.(Br. prot.)

Iraq(Br. infl.)

Italian
Somaliland(Br. adm.)

Eritrea(Br. adm.)

E.T.R.(Sov. sat.)

French
Indochina(Fr. prot.)

Dutch E.I.(Neth.)

Bhutan(Ind. prot.)

Kuw.(Br. prot.)

Trucial
Oman(Br. prot.)

Andaman

&

Nicobar Is.

Kashmir(Ind. prot.)

Mysore(Ind. prot.)

Central India(Ind. agcy)

Rajputana(Ind. terr.)

Maldives(Br. prot.)

Trans-
Jordan(ass. Br.)

Liu W.(Nat. Ch. infl.)

Ogaden(Br. adm.)

E.
Bengal(Pak.)

Palestine(Br. mand.)

Junagadh(Ind. occ.)

Pondichéry(Fr.)

9 Nov 1947India occupies
Junagadh

29 Nov 1947UN recommends
partition of Palestine

30 Nov 1947–14 May 1948Jewish-Palestinian
war in British Palestine

3–27 Jan 1948Anti-British
unrest in Iraq

4 Jan 1948British grant Burma
independence

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