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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
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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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