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Irrawaddy River
The Irrawaddy and Mekong river basins and their drainage networks.
On the Irrawaddy River, teak logs are transported downstream by being floated as large rafts. Myanmar is the world's major exporter of these logs, which are harvested from the tropical-deciduous forests of the country's hill regions.12