Salween River
The Salween River is one of the rivers in the Three Parallel Rivers area in South China. Is about 2,800 kilometers long and has a drainage area of 324,000 square kilometers.
Photo: Livius, Public domain.
Localities in the Area
Mawlamyine
Mawlamyine, formerly Moulmein, is the fourth largest city of Myanmar, 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin River. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.Salween River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Asia
- Category: transboundary river
- Location: Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
Latitude 16.5167° or 16° 31' north | Longitude 97.6167° or 97° 37' east |
Elevation 3 feet (1 metre) | GeoNames ID 1298189 |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Salween
- Arabic: Salog Salween
- Arabic: نهر سالوين
- Armenian: Սալուին
- Asturian: Ríu Salween
- Bashkir: Салуин
- Basque: Saluen
- Basque: Salween
- Belarusian: Рака Салуін
- Belarusian: Салуін
- Bengali: সালউইন নদী
- Bhojpuri: सालवीन नदी
- Bosnian: Salween
- Breton: Salouen
- Bulgarian: Салуин
- Burmese: သစ်တောရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန
- Burmese: သံလွင်မြစ်
- Burmese: အမှတ်(၁)စက်မှု ဝန်ကြီးဌာန
- Catalan: Riu Salween
- Catalan: Salween
- Catalan: Salwin
- Cebuano: Salween River
- Chinese: 怒江
- Chinese: 薩爾溫江
- Croatian: Salven
- Czech: Nu Jiang
- Czech: Salween
- Czech: Salwin
- Danish: Salween
- Dutch: Salawin
- Dutch: Saluen
- Dutch: Salween
- Dutch: Salwine
- Dutch: Thanlwin
- English: Along the Salween River
- Esperanto: Salŭin
- Estonian: Salween
- Estonian: Salweeni jõgi
- Finnish: Salween
- French: Salouen
- French: Salween
- Galician: Río Salween
- German: Nu-Fluss
- German: Nu Jiang
- German: Saluen
- German: Salween
- German: Salwin
- German: Thanlwin
- Hebrew: נהר הסלווין
- Hindi: सालवीन नदी
- Indonesian: Sungai Salween
- Italian: Saluen
- Italian: Salween
- Italian: Thanlwin
- Japanese: サルウィン川
- Japanese: 怒江
- Kazakh: Салуин
- Kirghiz: Салуин
- Korean: 누강
- Korean: 살윈강
- Latin: Saluen
- Latvian: Salvina
- Lithuanian: Salvinas
- Macedonian: Салуен
- Malayalam: സാൽവീൻ നദി
- Norwegian: Salween
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nu Jiang
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nuelva
- Norwegian Bokmål: Salween
- Norwegian Bokmål: Salwin
- Panjabi: ਸਲਵੀਨ ਦਰਿਆ
- Persian: رود سالوین
- Persian: سالوین
- Polish: Saluin
- Polish: Salween
- Polish: Thanlwin
- Portuguese: Rio Salween
- Portuguese: Rio Thanlwin
- Russian: Наг-Чу
- Russian: Ну-Цзян
- Russian: Нуцзян
- Russian: Салуин
- Scots: Salween River
- Serbian: Салуен
- Serbo-Croatian: Saluen
- Slovenian: Salween
- South Azerbaijani: سالوین چایی
- Spanish: Rio Saluen
- Spanish: Rio Saluén
- Spanish: Rio Salween
- Spanish: Río Saluen
- Spanish: Río Saluén
- Spanish: Río Salween
- Spanish: Salween
- Swahili: Mto Salawin
- Swedish: Nujiang
- Swedish: Nu jiang
- Swedish: Salawin
- Swedish: Salween
- Swedish: Salweenfloden
- Swedish: Salwine
- Swedish: Thanlwin
- Tajik: Дарёи Салуэн
- Tajik: Салуэн
- Tamil: சல்வீன் ஆறு
- Thai: นู่เจียง
- Thai: แม่น้ำสาละวิน
- Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ།
- Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རོང་རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ།
- Turkish: Saluen
- Ukrainian: Салуїн
- Uzbek: Saluin
- Vietnamese: Sông Salawin
- Vietnamese: Sông Salween
- Vietnamese: Sông Salwine
- Vietnamese: Sông Thanlwin
- Waray (Philippines): Salog Salween
- Welsh: Afon Salawin
- Welsh: Afon Salwin
- Wu Chinese: 萨尔温江
- Yue Chinese: 薩爾溫江
- Chiama Ngu Chu
- Dare Bauk
- Hapi-pu-lo Ra
- Lu Chiang
- Lu Kiang
- Mae Nam Khong
- Mae Nam Salawin
- Mānkiyon River
- Nam Hkong
- Nam Salouen
- Nu Chiang
- Sa-erh-wen Chiang
- Sa-lun Chiang
- Sa-lun Ho
- Thanlwin Myit
In the Area
Localities
- Sinpyu Aya2 miles north
- Daingwunkwin2½ miles south
- Kawmupun2½ miles south
- Pathein3 miles northwest
Landmarks
- Gaungze KyunIsland, 3800 feet southeast
- Battery PointPoint, 1¼ miles south
- Me KyunIsland, 1½ miles east
- Dawe KyunIsland, 2 miles east
Other Places
- Water Elevated TankWater tower, 2700 feet northwest
- Set Kaung Yon Basic Education Primary SchoolSchool, 3100 feet northwest
- Old Rice WarehouseWarehouse, 3200 feet north
- Old Rice WarehouseWarehouse, 3400 feet north
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