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- Salween_River discharge "4978.0".
- Salween_River abstract "The Salween (Burmese: Thanlwin, IPA: [θàɴlwɪ̀ɴ mjɪʔ]; Mon: သာန်လာန်, [san lon]; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ།, Wylie: rGyl mo rNGul chu; Chinese: 怒江; pinyin: Nù Jiāng; Shan: Nam Kong (Kong River); Thai: แม่น้ำสาละวิน, IPA: [mɛ̂ː náːm sǎːla.win]; also spelled Salwine; Salawin, Thai; Gyalmo Ngulchu, Nu Jiang--which means "Angry River" in Chinese (The river is actually named after the Nu tribe that lives in the area but Chinese having no phonetic script had to use a character with a similar sound as Nu and that happens to be the character for rage), is a river, about 2,815 kilometres (1,749 mi) long, that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia. It drains a narrow and mountainous watershed of 324,000 square kilometres (125,000 sq mi) that extends into the countries of China, Burma and Thailand. Steep canyon walls line the swift, powerful and undammed Salween, one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the world. Its extensive drainage basin supports a biodiversity comparable with the Mekong and is home to about 7 million people. In 2003, key parts of the mid-region watershed of the river were included within the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.The people who live on the Salween are relatively isolated from the rest of the world. The river is only navigable up to 90 kilometres (56 mi) from the mouth, and only in the rainy season.The Burma Road was constructed between 1937 and 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and crossed the river at the Huitong bridge. The Huitong bridge was blown by the retreating Chinese army and the river became the frontline from 1942 to 1944.The Salween Campaign of World War II, was launched in order to liberate occupied China and open the Burma Road again and connect it to the Ledo Road.Logging began on the mountains surrounding the Salween in the late 20th century, and has damaged the river's ecology. In recent years, there have been a number of proposals to dam the Salween river in China, prompting environmental concerns and wide opposition. Construction of at least one dam on a tributary of the Salween are currently underway in China's Yunnan province, and more are expected to follow.".
- Salween_River city Mawlamyine.
- Salween_River country Burma.
- Salween_River country China.
- Salween_River country Thailand.
- Salween_River discharge "4978.0".
- Salween_River leftTributary Moei_River.
- Salween_River mouthCountry Burma.
- Salween_River mouthElevation "0.0".
- Salween_River mouthMountain Mawlamyine.
- Salween_River mouthPlace Mawlamyine.
- Salween_River riverMouth Andaman_Sea.
- Salween_River source Qinghai_Mountains.
- Salween_River sourceCountry China.
- Salween_River sourceElevation "5400.0".
- Salween_River state Yunnan.
- Salween_River synonym "Nujiang".
- Salween_River thumbnail Salawin_river_at_Mae_Sam_Laep.jpg?width=300.
- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink art13268.html.
- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink salweenfirstdescent.com.
- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink 1083.
- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink www.chinariversproject.org.
- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink Three_Parallel_Rivers_of_Yunnan_Protected_Areas,_China.
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- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink www.salween.unibe.ch.
- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink www.salweenwatch.org.
- Salween_River wikiPageExternalLink index.php?view=article&id=51%3Arecent-dam-and-water-diversion-plans&tmpl=component&print=1&page=&option=com_content&Itemid=60.
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- Salween_River wikiPageID "199773".
- Salween_River wikiPageRevisionID "599018025".
- Salween_River c "怒江".
- Salween_River city "Mawlamyaing".
- Salween_River country "Burma".
- Salween_River country "China".
- Salween_River country "Thailand".
- Salween_River discharge "4978".
- Salween_River dischargeRound "0".
- Salween_River hasPhotoCollection Salween_River.
- Salween_River imageCaption "Salween River forming the boundary between Burma and Thailand".
- Salween_River imageSize "275".
- Salween_River length "2815".
- Salween_River map "Salween watershed.png".
- Salween_River mapCaption "Salween drainage area".
- Salween_River mouth "Andaman Sea".
- Salween_River mouthCountry "Burma".
- Salween_River mouthElevation "0".
- Salween_River mouthLocation "Mawlamyaing".
- Salween_River name "Salween".
- Salween_River otherName "Nujiang".
- Salween_River otherName "Thanlwin".
- Salween_River p "Nù Jiāng".
- Salween_River region "Tibet".
- Salween_River source "Qinghai Mountains".
- Salween_River sourceCountry "China".
- Salween_River sourceElevation "5400".
- Salween_River sourceLocation "Unknown glacier".
- Salween_River sourceRegion "Tibet".
- Salween_River state "Yunnan".
- Salween_River t "རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ།".
- Salween_River tributaryLeft "Moei River".
- Salween_River w "rGyl mo rNGul chu".
- Salween_River watershed "324000".
- Salween_River watershedRound "-2".
- Salween_River subject Category:Border_rivers.
- Salween_River subject Category:Burma–Thailand_border.
- Salween_River subject Category:Freshwater_ecoregions.
- Salween_River subject Category:Geography_of_Yunnan.
- Salween_River subject Category:International_rivers_of_Asia.
- Salween_River subject Category:Rivers_of_Burma.
- Salween_River subject Category:Rivers_of_China.
- Salween_River subject Category:Rivers_of_Thailand.
- Salween_River subject Category:Rivers_of_Tibet.
- Salween_River subject Category:Salween_River.
- Salween_River point "17.15 97.63333333333334".
- Salween_River type BodyOfWater109225146.
- Salween_River type BorderRivers.
- Salween_River type InternationalRiversOfAsia.
- Salween_River type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Salween_River type River109411430.
- Salween_River type RiversOfBurma.
- Salween_River type RiversOfChina.
- Salween_River type RiversOfThailand.
- Salween_River type RiversOfTibet.
- Salween_River type Stream109448361.
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- Salween_River type YagoGeoEntity.
- Salween_River type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
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- Salween_River type Place.
- Salween_River type River.
- Salween_River type Stream.
- Salween_River type Wikidata:Q532.
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- Salween_River type BodyOfWater.