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Irrawaddy

The Irrawaddy River is the principal river of , running through the centre of the country. Myanmar's most important commercial waterway, it is about 1,350 miles long.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Myanmar and China
  • Also known as: “Ayeyarwaddy River”, “Ayeyarwadi River”, “Ayeyarwady River”, “Errawaddy”, “Eyawadi Myit”, “Irawadi”, “Irāwatī”, “Irrawaddy River”, and “Iyawadi”

Irrawaddy

Latitude
15.83333° or 15° 50′ north
Longitude
95.1° or 95° 6′ east
Open location code
7M7QR4M2+82
Geo­Names ID
1321849
Wiki­data ID
Q26076
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Irrawaddy” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Irrawaddy”
  • Arabic: “نهر إيراوادي”
  • Arabic: “نهر ايراوادي”
  • Armenian: “Իրավադի”
  • Assamese: “ইৰাৱতী নদী”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Irawadi”
  • Azerbaijani: “İravadi çayı”
  • Azerbaijani: “iravadi”
  • Bashkir: “Иравади”
  • Basque: “Irawadi”
  • Belarusian: “Іравадзі”
  • Belarusian: “Рака Іравадзі”
  • Bengali: “ইরাবতী নদী (মায়ানমার)”
  • Bhojpuri: “इरावती नदी”
  • Bhojpuri: “इरावदी नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Breton: “Irrawaddy”
  • Bulgarian: “Иравади”
  • Burmese: “သစ်တောရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန”
  • Burmese: “အမှတ်(၁)စက်မှု ဝန်ကြီးဌာန”
  • Burmese: “ဧရာဝတီမြစ်”
  • Burmese: “ဧရာဝတီျမစ္”
  • Catalan: “Irauadi”
  • Catalan: “Irawaddi”
  • Catalan: “Irawaddy”
  • Catalan: “Irawadi”
  • Catalan: “Irawady”
  • Catalan: “Irrawaddi”
  • Catalan: “Irrawaddy”
  • Catalan: “Irrawadi”
  • Catalan: “Irrawady”
  • Catalan: “Iurandi”
  • Cebuano: “Irrawaddy River”
  • Chinese: “伊洛瓦底江”
  • Chinese: “伊洛瓦底河”
  • Croatian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Czech: “Iravadi”
  • Czech: “Iravádí”
  • Czech: “Irávádí”
  • Czech: “Irrawaddy”
  • Dutch: “Irrawaddy”
  • Esperanto: “Ajejarvadio”
  • Esperanto: “Ayeyarwady”
  • Esperanto: “Iravadio”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Iravadio”
  • Estonian: “Iravadi”
  • Estonian: “Irrawaddy jõgi”
  • Estonian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Irrawaddy Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Ayeyarwady”
  • Finnish: “Iravadi”
  • Finnish: “Irrawaddy”
  • French: “Ayeyarwady”
  • French: “Iraouaddy”
  • French: “Irrawaddy”
  • Galician: “Río Irauadi”
  • Georgian: “ირავადი”
  • German: “Ayeyarwady”
  • German: “Irawaddy”
  • German: “Irawady”
  • German: “Irrawaddy”
  • Greek: “Ιραουάντι”
  • Hebrew: “נהר איראוואדי”
  • Hindi: “इरावती नदी”
  • Hindi: “इरावती”
  • Hindi: “इरावदी नदी”
  • Hindi: “ईरावदी नदी”
  • Hindi: “ऎयारवाडी नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Iravádi”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Ayeyarwady”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Irrawaddy”
  • Italian: “Ayeyarwady”
  • Italian: “Irawaddi”
  • Italian: “Irrawaddi”
  • Italian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Japanese: “イラワジ川”
  • Japanese: “イラワディ川”
  • Japanese: “イワラジ川”
  • Japanese: “イワラディ川”
  • Japanese: “エーヤワディー川”
  • Kazakh: “Иравади”
  • Khmer: “ទន្លេឥរ៉ាវ៉ាឌី”
  • Kirghiz: “Иравади”
  • Korean: “에야와디 강”
  • Korean: “에야와디강”
  • Korean: “이라와디강”
  • Lao: “ແມ່ນໍ້າຂອງ ອິຣາວະດີ”
  • Latin: “Temalas”
  • Latvian: “Iravadi upe”
  • Latvian: “Iravadi”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajejarvadis”
  • Lithuanian: “Iravadis”
  • Macedonian: “Иравади”
  • Malay: “Sungai Irawati”
  • Malayalam: “ഇരാവതി നദി”
  • Marathi: “इरावती नदी”
  • Mingrelian: “ირავადი”
  • Nepali: “इरावती नदी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayeyarwaddy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Irrawaddy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ayeyarwaddy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ayeyarwady”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ayeyawady”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Irrawaddy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eravati”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Irawadi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Irraouaddi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Irrauaddy”
  • Norwegian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Ossetian: “Иравади (цæугæдон)”
  • Ossetian: “Иравади”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဧရာႏဝတီႏခြောင်”
  • Persian: “رود ایراوادی”
  • Polish: “Irawadi”
  • Polish: “Irrawaddy”
  • Portuguese: “Ayeyarwady”
  • Portuguese: “Delta do Irrawaddy”
  • Portuguese: “Irrawaddy”
  • Portuguese: “Rio ayeyarwady”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Irauádi”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Irrawaddy”
  • Romanian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Russian: “Иравади”
  • Sanskrit: “इरावती नदी”
  • Scots: “Irrawaddy River”
  • Serbian: “Иравади”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Iravadi”
  • Shan: “ၼမ်ႉၵဵဝ်”
  • Slovak: “Iravadi”
  • Slovenian: “Iravadi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایراوادی چایی”
  • Spanish: “Irawadi”
  • Spanish: “Irrawaddy”
  • Spanish: “Rio Ayeyarwady”
  • Spanish: “Río Ayeyarwady”
  • Spanish: “Rio irawadi”
  • Spanish: “Río Irawadi”
  • Spanish: “Rio Irrawaddy”
  • Spanish: “Río Irrawaddy”
  • Spanish: “Rio Irrawady”
  • Spanish: “Río Irrawady”
  • Sundanese: “Walungan Irawadi”
  • Swahili: “Mto Irrawaddy”
  • Swedish: “Ayeyarwaddy”
  • Swedish: “Ayeyarwady”
  • Swedish: “Irrawaddy”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥘᥛᥳ ᥐᥥᥝ”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Айеяруади”
  • Tajik: “Иравади”
  • Tamil: “ஐராவதி ஆறு”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำมายข่า”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำอิรวดี”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำอิระวดี”
  • Turkish: “İravadi Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Іраваді”
  • Urdu: “ایراوادی دریا”
  • Uzbek: “Iravadi”
  • Uzbek: “Irravadi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Ayeyarwaddy”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Ayeyarwady”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Irawaddy”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Irrawaddy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Irawadi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Irrawaddy”
  • Welsh: “Afon Irawadi”
  • Welsh: “Afon Irrawaddy”
  • Welsh: “Irrawaddy”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊洛瓦底江”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊洛瓦底江”
  • “इरावदी नदी”

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