Salween

[ sal-ween ]

noun

1. a river in southeastern Asia, flowing south from southwestern China through eastern Myanmar (Burma) to the Bay of Bengal. 1,750 miles (2,815 km) long.

Salween

/ ˈsælwiːn /

noun

1. a river in SW Asia, rising in the Tibetan Plateau and flowing east and south through SW China and Myanmar to the Gulf of Martaban. Length: 2400 km (1500 miles)

Example Sentences

The phrase "from the Salween to the sea" was invented and had some effect.

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West of the Salween, the European cant about opium has penetrated.

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The River Salween is the boundary on the east, and divides it from Kengtung.

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Wide tracts were laid waste, and the peasantry, deserting their fields, had joined in the fights or gone across the Salween.

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The poppy is largely cultivated in Yunnan and in the hilly country on the Salween.

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