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Namwan River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Namwan River (Tai Nüa: ᥘᥛᥳ ᥝᥢᥰ) is a river in China and Myanmar. Namwan River rises in the mountain called Ganya Liangzi at the northern section of Longchuan County, Yunnan. It travels through the Longchuan county, as the major irrigation water source of the fields in the basin, enters the valley at the southwest of Zhangfeng, the county town of Longchuan. It ends as it merges with the Shweli River at Nongdao, Ruili.. It serves as a boundary between Myanmar and China.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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