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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river rising in the hills of northern Myanmar (Burma) and flowing about 1,160 km (720 mi) generally south to the Irrawaddy River.

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Examples

  • At the banks of the Chindwin River, the soldiers of the second junta ordered us to strip.

    Burma David Woodruff 2011

  • The situation is good, near the confluence of the Chindwin and Irrawaddy rivers, and it was probably here that a trade route from the Shan states joined one from Yunnan on their way to Assam. 105

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • Larger than England and France combined, Burma has historically been a crazy quilt of vaguely demarcated states sectioned by jungly mountain ranges and the valleys of the Irrawaddy, Chindwin, Salween, and Mekong rivers.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • Larger than England and France combined, Burma has historically been a crazy quilt of vaguely demarcated states sectioned by jungly mountain ranges and the valleys of the Irrawaddy, Chindwin, Salween, and Mekong rivers.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • From Yunnan to India, again there were two routes: the southern one from Dali to Yongchang, through the Pyu Kingdom, Prome, the Arakan Range, Kamarupa, and arriving in India; the western one crossing the Irrawaddy and the Mogaung rivers, the Chindwin River to India, and beyond.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • MacKinnon's subunit 09b includes the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the Kachin and upper Chindwin areas of northern Myanmar.

    Northern Triangle subtropical forests 2008

  • The Chindwin, Mali Hka, and Mai Hka rivers originate in these mountains and converge in the lower reaches to form the Irrawaddy River.

    Northern Triangle subtropical forests 2008

  • Finally, in a decrepit encampment near the upper Chindwin, he stumbled upon wild kalaws just as a rampaging elephant and a typhoon simultaneously ravaged the village, stomping tents and washing away trees.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The Chindwin, Mali Hka, and N'mai Hka rivers originate in these mountains and flow south to converge in the lower reaches to form the Irrawaddy River.

    Northern Triangle temperate forests 2008

  • In a previous analysis of conservation units across the Indo-Malayan region, MacKinnon identified a subunit (09b) that includes the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the Kachin and upper Chindwin areas of northern Myanmar.

    Northern Triangle temperate forests 2008

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