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Irrawaddy Delta

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The delta of Myanmar's Irrawaddy River on the Andaman Sea, one of the world's major rice-growing regions and the most densely populated part of the country. It was devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008, one of the deadliest storms in recorded Asian history.

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