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Taping River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Taping River (pinyin: Tàipíng Jiāng), known as Ta Hkaw Hka in Kachin and Daying River (pinyin: Dàyíng Jiāng, Wade–Giles: Ta-ying Chiang) in Chinese, is a river in Yunnan province, China and northern Myanmar (Burma). It is the first tributary of the country's chief river, the Irrawaddy, and the watersheds between it and the N'mai Hka river to the northwest and the rivers Shweli and Salween to the southeast form part of the boundary between China and Myanmar. Its source lies in Yingjiang County of Yunnan, and it enters the Irrawaddy near Bhamo, Kachin State.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

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

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