BIR or Bir may refer to:

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Bangladesh Infantry Regiment The Bangladesh Infantry Regiment (BIR) is an infantry regiment ( regimental system type) of the Bangladesh Army. It was raised in 2001 as the second combat regiment after the East Bengal Regiment. The regiment was raised initially by transferring ...

, an

infantry Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and marine i ...

regiment A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, service and/or a specialisation. In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscripted ...

of the

Bangladesh Army The Bangladesh Army is the land warfare branch and the largest component of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The primary mission of the Army is to provide necessary forces and capabilities to deliver the Bangladeshi government's security and def ...

Rapid Intervention Battalion, Cameroon The Rapid Intervention Battalion (''Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide'', or BIR) is an elite military force and an army combat unit of the Cameroonian Armed Forces. The unit is supported by the United States, reports directly to the president of Cam ...

(french: Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide, links=no), Cameroon's armed forces elite unit * , the identity card issued to residents of the Chinese SAR of Macau *

Brainerd International Raceway Brainerd International Raceway is a road course, and dragstrip racing complex northwest of the city of Brainerd, Minnesota. The complex has a dragstrip, and overlapping and road courses. The complex also includes a kart track. The raceway hos ...

, a road course, drag strip and kart track in Brainerd, Minnesota, USA *

British Institute of Radiology The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) is a radiology society and charity based in London, United Kingdom. It is the oldest institute of its kind in the world, forming on 2 April 1897. History The society can be traced back to two separate i ...

, professional society for medical imaging *

Birmingham International Raceway Birmingham International Raceway, (BIR) (formerly Fairgrounds Raceway, Birmingham Super Speedway, Birmingham Super Raceway and Birmingham International Speedway) was a 5/8-mile oval paved racetrack located at the Alabama State Fairgrounds in th ...

, a oval paved racetrack located at the Alabama State Fairgrounds *

Board of Invention and Research Board or Boards may refer to: Flat surface * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat ** Plank (wood) ** Cutting board ** Sounding board, of a musical instrument * Cardboard (paper product) * Paperboard * Fiberboard ** Hardboard, a t ...

, a military research group of the British Royal Navy Admiralty during World War I *

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

's IOC country code *

Bureau of Internal Revenue (Philippines) The Bureau of Internal Revenue'' ''( fil, Kawanihan ng Rentas Internas, or BIR) is a revenue service for the Philippine government, which is responsible for collecting more than half of the total revenues of the government. It is an agency of ...

, an attached agency of the Department of Finance in the Philippines * Baculovirus Inhibitor of apoptosis protein Repeat, a domain commonly found in Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs) * Built-in 'robe, a British term to describe a living space with a built-in closet * British Indian Restaurant, adaptation of traditional Indian food for the British market * Bir railway station's station code * , Spanish training pathway for medical residents

Proper names (Bir)

* ''Bir'' (film), a 2020 Bangladeshi political action film by Kazi Hayat, featuring Shakib Khan in the title role * ''Bir'' (Mezarkabul album) * ''Bir'' (Hepsi album), an album released by Hepsi in Turkey in April 2005 *

Bir, Himachal Pradesh Bir is a rural village located in the west of Joginder Nagar Valley in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It's the paragliding capital of India and the location of the Bir Tibetan Colony, founded in the early 1960s as a settlement ...

, town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh * Bir, Madhya Pradesh * Bir, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran *

Bir-e Bala Bir-e Bala ( fa, بير بالا, also Romanized as Bīr-e Bālā; also known as Bālād) is a village in Kahir Rural District, in the Central District of Konarak County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Is ...

, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Bir-e Rasul Bakhsh, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Bir-e Sofla, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Bir, alternate name of Birdaf, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran *

Bir Ma'in Bir Ma'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 during the second phase of Operation Danny by the First and Second Battalions of the Yiftach Brigade. It was l ...

, a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict *

Bir Ghbalou District Bir Ghbalou is a district of Bouïra Province, Algeria. Municipalities The district is further divided into 3 municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or ju ...

, a district of Bouïra Province, Algeria *

Bir Moghrein Airport Bir Moghrein Airport is an airport serving Bir Moghrein, a city in the Tiris Zemmour region of Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''G� ...

, an airport serving Bir Moghrein, a city in the Tiris Zemmour region of Mauritania *

Bir Salim Bir Salim ( ar, بئر سالم) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 9, 1948, by the Givati Brigade. It was located 4&nb ...

, a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict *

Bir Tawil ( arz, بير طويل, translit=Bīr Ṭawīl, lit=tall water well, ) is a area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country. When spoken of in association with the neighbouring Halaib ...

, a small area along the border between Egypt and Sudan which is claimed by neither country *

Bir Tibetan Colony Bir Tibetan Colony is a Tibetan refugee settlement in the Himalayan village of Chowgan adjacent to the town of Bir, in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Bir Tibetan Colony was established in the early 1960s by Chokling Rinpoche fo ...

, Tibetan refugee settlement in the town of Bir in Himachal Pradesh, India * Bir Tungal, Hill area in Himachal Pradesh, India *

Beed Beed (Marathi pronunciation: iːɖ is a city in Marathwada region of Maharashtra state in India. It is the administrative headquarters in Beed district. History Beed is a historical city of possibly medieval origin. Its early history is ob ...

, Maharashtra, India, also known as Bir *

Birecik Birecik; ku, Bêrecûk is a town and district of Şanlıurfa Province of Turkey, on the Euphrates. Built on a limestone cliff 400 ft. high on the left/east bank of the Euphrates, "at the upper part of a reach of that river, which runs nearl ...

, town on the Euphrates in Turkey, also known as Bir *

Rosette Bir Rosette Bir (1926-1992) was a French sculptor. She lived in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris, France. Born in 1926, she started her work at 42, when she finished raising her children in a wealthy family. She learned from the artist Albert Féra ...

(1926–1992), French sculptor

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