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Key facts
- Country
- Myanmar
- Location
- Hukawng Valley , Kachin State
- Coordinates
- 27°3′26.7048″N 97°1′33.618″E / 27.057418000°N 97.02600500°E / 27.057418000; 97.02600500
- Elevation
- 1,134 m (3,720 ft)
- Length
- 1,207 km (750 mi)
- Basin size
- 114,684.9 km (44,280.1 mi )
- Average
- (Period: 1967– 2009)149.7 km /a (4,740 m /s)
- Minimum
- (Period: 1966–2009)649 m /s (22,900 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- (Period: 1966–2009)19,935 m /s (704,000 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Uyu
- Right
- Myittha
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Myanmar
- Located in
- Magway Region
- Continent
- Asia
- Image
- Homalin aerial.jpg
- Length
- 1207
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- Commons category
- Chindwin River
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- mouth of the watercourse
- Irrawaddy River
- watershed area
- 114000
- discharge
- 4000
- origin of the watercourse
- Hukawng Valley
- tributary
- Uyu River
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Chindwin River ( Burmese pronunciation: [t͡ɕɪ́ɰ̃dwɪ́ɰ̃ mjɪʔ]), also known as the Ningthi River (Meitei: [niŋtʰi tuɾel]), is a river in Myanmar and the largest tributary of the Irrawaddy River, which itself is the principal river of Myanmar.
Sources
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chindwin River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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