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The Irrawaddy River (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီမြစ်, pronounced [ʔèjàwədì mjɪʔ], official romanisation: Ayeyarwady [5] [note 1]) is the principal river of Myanmar, running through the centre of the country. Myanmar’s most important commercial waterway, it is about 1,350 miles (2,170 km) long.
Ayeyarwady Region (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး [ʔèjàwədì táiɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí], S'gaw Karen: ထံထၣ်စွ့, Pwo Western Karen: ထံၫထၪကျိၩ့; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division) is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River).
The Burmese public regard the Irrawaddy River as the birthplace of Burmese civilization. Although access to the Chinese market guarantees the dam's electricity sales, for many Burmese the Myitsone Dam represents growing Chinese influence in Burma which they perceive as "exploitative" to the country hitherto isolated by Western economic sanctions.
The delta as seen by the Sentinel-2A satellite in 2017. The Irrawaddy Delta or Ayeyarwady Delta lies in the Irrawaddy Division, the lowest expanse of land in Myanmar that fans out from the limit of tidal influence at Myan Aung to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, 290 kilometres (180 mi) to the south at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River. [1]
The Chindwin River (Burmese: Chindwin Myin), also known as the Ningthi River [3] [4] (Meitei: Ningthi Turel [5] [6] [a]), is a river flowing entirely in Myanmar, and the largest tributary of the country's main river, the Irrawaddy. [7] Its official name is also spelled Chindwinn. [8]
Myitnge River (Burmese: မြစ်ငယ် or Nam Tu, [2] also known as Dokhtawaddy River (ဒုဋ္ဌဝတီမြစ်), is a major tributary of Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy) in Myanmar (Burma). The name Myitnge in Burmese and Dokhtawaddy in Pali both mean "little river", by contrast with the Ayeyarwady or "big river". [3]
Irrawaddy, an alternative spelling of Ayeyarwady Region, an administrative division of Burma; The Irrawaddy, a Burmese news publication based in Chiang Mai, Thailand; Irrawaddy dolphin, a dolphin which is found in the Irrawaddy River "Waters of Irrawaddy", the first song in Beyond Rangoon, composed by Hans Zimmer
It is the first tributary of the country's chief river, the Irrawaddy, and the watersheds between it and the N'mai Hka river to the northwest and the rivers Shweli and Salween to the southeast form part of the boundary between China and Myanmar. [2] Its source lies in Yingjiang County of Yunnan, and it enters the Irrawaddy near Bhamo, Kachin ...