Burmee Colony is a Rohingya-majority neighbourhood in Karachi. Burmee Colony ("Burma Colony" locality) is one of the two main Rohingya settlements in Karachi.[6] The other one is Arkanabad in Karachi.[2][7][1] Arkanabad is named after Rakhine State, Myanmar (also known as Arakan, Burma)[8]
Large scale Rohingya migration to Karachi made Karachi one of the largest population centres of Rohingyas in the world after Myanmar.[11]
According to community leaders and social scientists, there are over 1.6 million Bengalis and up to 400,000 Rohingyas living in Karachi, which is the highest number after Myanmar and now Bangladesh.[9][6]
^Rehman, Zia Ur (23 February 2015). "Identity issue haunts Karachi's Rohingya population". Dawn. Retrieved 26 December 2016. Their large-scale migration had made Karachi one of the largest Rohingya population centres outside Myanmar but afterwards the situation started turning against them.