Editing Geography of Myanmar (section)

==Rivers==
[[File:Nyaung-U, Bagan, Myanmar, The shores of Irrawaddy River.jpg|thumb|The shores of Irrawaddy River at Nyaung-U, Bagan]]
The [[Irrawaddy River|Irrawaddy]], the main river of Burma, flows from north to south through the Central Burma Basin and ends in a wide [[River delta|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. Its fertile delta also create 60% of annual rice harvests. The river is historically significant with the [[Bagan]] temples on their banks and the [[Kachin people]]'s homeland near the river's source- the confluence of the [[N'Mai River|N'mai]] and [[Mali River|Mali]] rivers.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Irrawaddy |volume=14 |page=839| first=James George |last=Scott}}</ref><ref name="cgiar-irr"/>

[[File:Salawin river at Mae Sam Laep (detail).jpg|thumb|Salween river at Mae Sam Laep on the Thai-Myanmar border]]
In the east the [[Salween]] and the [[Sittaung River]] run along the western side of the Shan Hills and the northern end of the Dawna Range. The Salween begins in China, where it is called the Nu River {{zh|c=怒江|p=Nù Jiāng}}, and runs south through 17 degrees of latitude through the Shan Plateau. The Salween runs is called the angry river in Mandarin due to its fast running waters snaking through mountainous terrain for almost the entirety of its 1,491-mile (2,400&nbsp;km) long length.<ref name="cgiar-sal"/>
In the narrow southeastern part of Burma, the [[Ye River|Ye]], [[Heinze River|Heinze]], [[Dawei River|Dawei]] (Tavoy), [[Great Tenasserim River|Great Tenasserim]] (Tanintharyi) and the [[Lenya River|Lenya]] rivers are relatively short and flow into the [[Andaman Sea]]. Further south the [[Kraburi River]] forms the southern border between Thailand and Burma.<ref>Avijit Gupta, ''The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia'', Oxford University Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-19-924802-5}}</ref>