Irrawaddy River

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 mi long.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Myanmar and China
  • Also known as: “Afon Irrawaddy”, “Ajejarvadis”, “Ayeyarwaddy”, “Ayeyarwaddy River”, “Ayeyarwadi River”, “Ayeyarwady”, “Ayeyarwady River”, “Ayeyawady”, “Delta do Irrawaddy”, “Elva Irrawaddy”, “Errawaddy”, “Eyawadi Myit”, “Iraouaddy”, “Irávádí”, “Iravadi upe”, “Irawaddi”, “Irawaddy”, “Irawady”, “Irāwatī”, “Irraouaddi”, “Irrauaddy”, “Irravadi”, “Irrawaddi”, “Irrawaddy”, “Irrawaddy jõgi”, “Irrawadi”, “Irrawady”, “Iurandi”, “Iyawadi”, “Rio ayeyarwady”, “Rio Ayeyarwady”, “Río Ayeyarwady”, “Rio irawadi”, “Rio Irrawaddy”, “Río Irrawaddy”, “Rio Irrawady”, “Río Irrawady”, “Rivero Iravadio”, “Sông Ayeyarwady”, “Sông Irawaddy”, “Sông Irrawaddy”, “Sungai Ayeyarwady”, “نهر ايراوادي”, “इरावती”, “ईरावदी नदी”, “ऎयारवाडी नदी”, “แม่น้ำมายข่า”, “แม่น้ำอิระวดี”, “သစ်တောရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန”, “အမှတ်(၁)စက်မှု ဝန်ကြီးဌာန”, “ဧရာဝတီျမစ္”, “에야와디 강”, “イラワジ川”, “イラワディ川”, “イワラジ川”, “イワラディ川”, and “伊洛瓦底河”

Irrawaddy River

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 River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Irrawaddy”
  • Arabic: “نهر إيراوادي”
  • Armenian: “Իրավադի”
  • Assamese: “ইৰাৱতী নদী”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Irawadi”
  • Azerbaijani: “İravadi çayı”
  • Azerbaijani: “iravadi”
  • Bashkir: “Иравади”
  • Basque: “Irawadi”
  • Belarusian: “Іравадзі”
  • Bengali: “ইরাবতী নদী (মায়ানমার)”
  • Bhojpuri: “इरावदी नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Breton: “Irrawaddy”
  • Bulgarian: “Иравади”
  • Burmese: “ဧရာဝတီမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Irauadi”
  • Cebuano: “Irrawaddy River”
  • Chinese: “伊洛瓦底江”
  • Croatian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Czech: “Iravadi”
  • Czech: “Iravádí”
  • Dutch: “Irrawaddy”
  • Esperanto: “Ajejarvadio”
  • Esperanto: “Iravadio”
  • Estonian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Irrawaddy Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Iravadi”
  • French: “Irrawaddy”
  • Galician: “Río Irauadi”
  • Georgian: “ირავადი”
  • German: “Irrawaddy”
  • Greek: “Ιραουάντι”
  • Hebrew: “נהר איראוואדי”
  • Hindi: “इरावती नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Iravádi”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Irrawaddy”
  • Italian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Japanese: “エーヤワディー川”
  • Kazakh: “Иравади”
  • Khmer: “ទន្លេឥរ៉ាវ៉ាឌី”
  • Kirghiz: “Иравади”
  • Korean: “에야와디강”
  • Korean: “이라와디강”
  • Lao: “ແມ່ນໍ້າຂອງ ອິຣາວະດີ”
  • Latin: “Temala”
  • Latin: “Temalas”
  • Latvian: “Iravadi”
  • Lithuanian: “Iravadis”
  • Macedonian: “Иравади”
  • Malay: “Sungai Irawati”
  • Malayalam: “ഇരാവതി നദി”
  • Marathi: “इरावती नदी”
  • Mingrelian: “ირავადი”
  • Nepali: “इरावती नदी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Irrawaddy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eravati”
  • Norwegian: “Irrawaddy”
  • Ossetian: “Иравади (цæугæдон)”
  • Ossetian: “Иравади”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဧရာႏဝတီႏခြောင်”
  • Persian: “رود ایراوادی”
  • Polish: “Irawadi”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Irauádi”
  • Rakhine: “ဧရာဝတီမြစ်”
  • 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: “Río Irawadi”
  • Sundanese: “Walungan Irawadi”
  • Swahili: “Mto Irrawaddy”
  • Swedish: “Irrawaddy”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Irawadi”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥘᥛᥳ ᥐᥥᥝ”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Айеяруади”
  • Tajik: “Иравади”
  • Tamil: “ஐராவதி ஆறு”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำอิรวดี”
  • Turkish: “İravadi Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Іраваді”
  • Urdu: “ایراوادی دریا”
  • Uzbek: “Iravadi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Ayeyarwaddy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Irawadi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Irrawaddy”
  • Welsh: “Afon Irawadi”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊洛瓦底江”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊洛瓦底江”
  • “इरावदी नदी”

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