Sittaung River
The Sittaung River is a river in south central Myanmar in Bago Division. The Pegu Range separates its basin from that of the Irrawaddy. The river originates at the edge of the Shan Hills southeast of Mandalay, and flows southward to the Gulf of Martaban.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Paunglaung River”, “Rio sittang”, “Si River”, “Sit-taung River”, “Sit-toung River”, “Sitang”, “Sittang Myit”, “Sittaun”, “Sông Sittang”, “Sông Sittoung”, “시타웅 강”, “錫唐河”, and “錫當河”
Sittaung River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Mon, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.90373° or 16° 54′ 13″ north
Longitude
96.98856° or 96° 59′ 19″ east
Open location code
7M8RWX3Q+FC
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sittaung River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر سيتاونج”
- Asturian: “Ríu Sittaung”
- Basque: “Sittaung”
- Breton: “Sittaung”
- Bulgarian: “Ситаун”
- Burmese: “စစ်တောင်းမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Sittang”
- Cebuano: “Sittang River”
- Chinese: “锡唐河”
- Chinese: “锡当河”
- Chuvash: “Ситаун”
- Czech: “Sistaun”
- Dutch: “Sittaung River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سيتاونچ”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Sittaung”
- French: “Sittang”
- German: “Sittaung”
- Hindi: “सीतांग नदी”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Sittaung”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sittaung”
- Japanese: “シッタン川”
- Korean: “시탕강”
- Lithuanian: “Sitangas”
- Mon: “ဗတာင်”
- Pa'o Karen: “သစ်တောင်းခြောင်”
- Pa'o Karen: “သိစ်တောင်းခြောင်”
- Polish: “Sittaung Myit”
- Russian: “Ситаун”
- Spanish: “Río Sittang”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำสะโตง”
- Ukrainian: “Сітаун”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Sittaung”
- Welsh: “Afon Sittaung”
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