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Irrawaddy River

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Irrawaddy River

River, Myanmar (Burma). It flows 1,350 mi (2,170 km) across the centre of the country and empties into the Andaman Sea. The country's most important commercial waterway, it is formed by the confluence of the Nmai and the Mali rivers; in the central dry zone it is joined by its major tributary, the Chindwin River. Chief ports are Mandalay, Chauk, Prome (Pyay), and Henzada.



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The village of Auk Pyon Wa near the mouth of the Irrawaddy river lost 221 of its people when the storm hit, flattening it and surrounding it by water on all sides.
Two and a half million survivors are trapped in the Irrawaddy River Delta; they are without food or clean water, and they are threatened by a cholera outbreak.
In the city of Bogalay in the Irrawaddy river delta, 95% of homes are thought to have been destroyed.
 
 
 
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