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==Distribution and habitat==

The Burmese python occurs throughout Southern and Southeast Asia, including eastern [[India]], southeastern [[Nepal]], western [[Bhutan]], southeastern [[Bangladesh]], [[Myanmar]], [[Thailand]], [[Laos]], [[Cambodia]], [[Vietnam]], northern continental [[Malaysia]], and southern China in [[Fujian]], [[Jiangxi]], [[Guangdong]], [[Hainan]], [[Guangxi]], and [[Yunnan]].<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Barker, D.G. |author2=Barker, T.M. |year=2010 |title=The Distribution of the Burmese Python, ''Python bivittatus'', in China |url=http://usark.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Burmese-China_BarkerBarker.pdf |journal=Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society |volume=45 |issue=5 |pages=86–88 |access-date=2012-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191735/http://usark.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Burmese-China_BarkerBarker.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It also occurs in [[Hong Kong]], and in [[Indonesia]] on [[Java]], southern [[Sulawesi]], Bali, and [[Sumbawa]].<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Barker, D.G. |author2=Barker, T.M. |year=2008 |title=The distribution of the Burmese Python, ''Python molurus bivittatus'' |journal=Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=33–38 |url=http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libraries/download/6157/distributionburmesepython.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520220853/http://www.venomousreptiles.org/libraries/download/6157/DistributionBurmesePython.pdf |archive-date=2014-05-20 |access-date=2012-10-17}}</ref> It has also been reported in [[Kinmen]].<ref name=SoT>{{cite web |author1=Breuer, H. |author2=Murphy, W.C. |date=2009–2010 |url=http://www.snakesoftaiwan.com/Python%20molurus%20bivittatus/species_python_molurus.htm |title=''Python molurus bivittatus'' |work=Snakes of Taiwan |access-date=17 October 2012 |archive-date=26 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626211432/http://www.snakesoftaiwan.com/Python%20molurus%20bivittatus/species_python_molurus.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> Interestingly, given the fragility of its native bird population, the most odd capture of a Burmese in the wild occurred in 1955 in Kalihi Valley, Oahu, in Hawai‘i. The captured specimen, weighing 220 pounds at 17 ft long, was caught by local boar hunter, Norman Thompson Sr., who killed it when the python attacked one of Thompson's hunting dogs.

It is an excellent swimmer and needs a permanent source of water. It lives in [[grassland]]s, marshes, swamps, rocky foothills, woodlands, river valleys, and jungles with open clearings. It is a good climber and has a [[prehensile]] tail. It can stay in water for 30 minutes but mostly stays on land.{{cn|date=March 2022}}