Salween River

The Salween is a river, about 3,289 km long, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau south into the Andaman Sea. The Salween flows primarily within southwest and eastern , with a short section forming the border of Myanmar and .
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  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 3 feet (1 metre)
  • 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”
    “Thanlwin Myit”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gaungze Kyun and Southern Myanmar Football Stadium.
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is an islet.
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Yamanya Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, located in downtown Mawlamyine, Myanmar. is situated 1½ miles south of Salween River.
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The Kyaikthanlan Pagoda is the tallest Buddhist pagoda… is situated 2 miles southeast of Salween River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mottama and Mawlamyine.
is a town in the of , .
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, formerly Moulmein, is the fourth-largest…

Salween River

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Latitude
16.51667° or 16° 31′ north
Longitude
97.61667° or 97° 37′ east
Open location code
7M8VGJ88+MM
Geo­Names ID
1298189
Wiki­data ID
Q26422

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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”

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