Prelims ask
Nu = Salween. Parallel with Mekong and Yangtze. Not the Irrawaddy.
Asia
Salween
Longer than the Irrawaddy, and far less dammed.
- Source
- Tibetan plateau. Nu in China; Thanlwin in Myanmar.
- Countries
- China, Myanmar, and a Thailand border reach.
- Direction
- South.
- Mouth
- Andaman Sea, Gulf of Martaban.
- Length
- About 2,800 km.
- Major tributaries
- Few large ones. It is a gorge river.
- Delta or estuary
- Mouth on the Andaman Sea in Myanmar.
- Basin
- One of the last long, largely free-flowing rivers of Asia.
- One exam fact
- In Yunnan it is the Nu, the eastern-most of the usual ‘three’ only if you stand in the right gorge: the three parallel rivers are the Jinsha (Yangtze), the Lancang (Mekong) and the Nu (Salween).
Mains use
A transboundary gorge river still without a great delta story. Use in elimination, not as a civilisation river.