Salween

• Salwen

Borrowed from Burmese သံလွင် (samlwang).

Salween

1. A 2,815-kilometre-long river flowing from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea, through China, Burma and Thailand.
   • 2013 March 7, Blanchard, Ben, “About 60,000 could lose homes for controversial China dams”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 26 January 2016‎:

     Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao, a geologist by trade and populist by instinct, vetoed the dams in Yunnan province on the UNESCO-protected Nu River, known outside China as the Salween, in 2005, after an outcry from environmentalists.

• (upper reaches) Nujiang

• weanels