Salween River
The Salween is a Southeast Asian river, about 3,289 km long, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau south into the Andaman Sea. The Salween flows primarily within southwest China and eastern Myanmar, with a short section forming the border of Myanmar and Thailand.
- Type: Stream
- Description: Major river in Southeast Asia
- Also known as: “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”, “Nu River”, “Sa-erh-wen Chiang”, “Sa-lun Chiang”, “Sa-lun Ho”, “Salween”, “Thanlwin”, and “Thanlwin Myit”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gaungze Kyun and Southern Myanmar Football Stadium.
Southern Myanmar Football Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.Kyaik Than Lan Pagoda
Buddhist temple
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mottama and Mawlamyine.
Mottama
Town
Mottama is a town in the Thaton District of Mon State, Myanmar. Located on the west bank of the Thanlwin River, on the opposite side of Mawlamyaing, Mottama was the capital of the Martaban Kingdom from 1287 to 1364, and an entrepôt of international repute until the mid-16th century.
Mawlamyine
Salween River
- Categories: transboundary river, river, and body of water
- Location: Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
16.51667° or 16° 31′ north
Longitude
97.61667° or 97° 37′ east
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
7M8VGJ88+MM
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Satellite Map
Discover Salween River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Salween River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Salween”
- Arabic: “نهر سالوين”
- Armenian: “Սալուին”
- Asturian: “Ríu Salween”
- Azerbaijani: “Salvin çayı”
- Balinese: “Tukad Salween”
- Bashkir: “Салуин”
- Basque: “Saluen”
- Basque: “Salween”
- 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: “萨尔温江”
- 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”
- Esperanto: “Salŭin”
- Esperanto: “Salveno”
- Estonian: “Salween”
- Estonian: “Salweeni jõgi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Salween Naddi”
- Finnish: “Salween”
- French: “Salouen”
- French: “Salween”
- Galician: “Río Salween”
- German: “Nu Jiang”
- German: “Nu-Fluss”
- German: “Saluen”
- German: “Salween”
- German: “Salwin”
- German: “Thanlwin”
- Greek: “Σάλουιν”
- 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: “땅륀강”
- Korean: “살윈강”
- Latin: “Saluen”
- Latvian: “Salvina”
- Lithuanian: “Salvinas”
- Macedonian: “Салуен”
- Malayalam: “സാൽവീൻ നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nu Jiang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuelva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salween”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salwin”
- Norwegian: “Salween”
- Ossetian: “Салуин”
- Pa'o Karen: “ခြုံꩻခြောင်”
- Panjabi: “ਸਲਵੀਨ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “رود سالوین”
- Persian: “سالوین”
- Polish: “Saluin”
- Polish: “Salween”
- Polish: “Thanlwin”
- Portuguese: “Rio Saluém”
- Portuguese: “Rio Salween”
- Portuguese: “Rio Thanlwin”
- Rakhine: “သံလွင်မြစ်”
- Russian: “Наг-Чу”
- Russian: “Ну-Цзян”
- Russian: “Нуцзян”
- Russian: “Салуин”
- Scots: “Salween River”
- Serbian: “Салуен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saluen”
- Shan: “ၼမ်ႉၶူင်း”
- Slovenian: “Salven”
- Slovenian: “Salween”
- South Azerbaijani: “سالوین چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Saluen”
- Spanish: “Rio Saluén”
- Spanish: “Río Saluen”
- Spanish: “Río Saluén”
- Spanish: “Rio Salween”
- Spanish: “río Salween”
- Spanish: “Salween”
- Swahili: “Mto Salawin”
- Swedish: “Nu jiang”
- Swedish: “Nujiang”
- 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”
- Western Panjabi: “سالوین دریا”
- Wu Chinese: “萨尔温江”
- Yue Chinese: “薩爾溫江”
- “सालवीन नदी”
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