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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.
The Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0116) covers the freshwater portion of the delta of the Irrawaddy River, set back an average of 70 km from the Bay of Bengal by the saltwater mangroves. To the north is a rainforest belt with less inundated land.
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]
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
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]
The shores of Irrawaddy River at Nyaung-U, Bagan. The Irrawaddy, the main river of Burma, flows from north to south through the Central Burma Basin and ends in a wide delta. The Mekong river runs from the Tibetan Plateau through China's Yunnan and northeastern Burma into Laos. The basin has significant mining resources and forest ecosystems.
Belmond Road to Mandalay is a river cruiser in Myanmar and formerly known as Burma, that plies the Irrawaddy River, also known as the Ayeyarwady River. Its ports of call include Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay and Bhamo. It also visits remote villages and temples close to Myanmar’s border with China. The launch took place on ...
Battle of Pakokku and Irrawaddy River; Part of the Central Burma Campaign, the Burma campaign, the South-East Asian theatre of World War II and the Pacific Theater of World War II: A Lee tank loaded onto a pontoon ferry by British troops before crossing the Irrawaddy River at Ngazun, 28 February 1945