High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Salween (Burmese: ??????????, IPA: ; Mon: ????????, ; Tibetan: ????????????????, Wylie: rGyl mo rNGul chu; Chinese: ??; pinyin: Nu Jiang; Shan: ?????????; Thai: ?????????????, IPA: ; also spelled Salwine; Salawin, Thai; Gyalmo Ngulchu, Tibetan; Thanlwin, Burmese; Nu Jiang, "the angry river", Chinese) 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 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. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном...