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The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit. 'Nine Dragon River Delta' or simply Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, 'Mekong River Delta'), also known as the Western Region (Vietnamese: Miền Tây) or South-western region (Vietnamese: Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of ...
Long Xuyên: 11 wards and 2 rural communes (capital of province) They are further subdivided into 18 commune-level towns (or townlets), 110 communes, and 28 wards (156 in total). Demographics
Cửu Long Province, a former Vietnamese province in the Mekong Delta; 4th Corps (Vietnam People's Army) or Cửu Long Corps, a regular army corps of the People's Army of Vietnam; See also. Operation Cuu Long 44-02, a 1971 operation by South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces to reopen Route 4 in Cambodia; Jiulong (disambiguation), Mandarin equivalent
The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia [1] with an estimated length of 4,909 km (3,050 mi) [1] and a drainage area of 795,000 km 2 (307,000 sq mi), discharging 475 km 3 (114 cu mi) of water annually. [2]
Cửu Long was a province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. [1] It was created in 1976 from the merger of Vĩnh Long province and Vĩnh Bình province , and in 1992 Cửu Long was re-split into Vĩnh Long and Trà Vinh provinces.
Cà Mau is a province of Vietnam, named after its capital city.It is located in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, and is the southernmost of Vietnam's 63 provinces. It is bordered to the north by Kiên Giang and Bạc Liêu provinces, to the west by the Gulf of Thailand, and to the south and east by the South China Sea.
The Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute (CLRRI, Vietnamese: Viện lúa Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long), situated in Cần Thơ, Vietnam, is a governmental institution dedicated to agricultural research. The institute was established in 1-1977 under name of Center for agricultural Technology in Cuulong delta.
Sóc Trăng province lies roughly between 9°14'N and 9°56'N latitude and between 105°34'E and 106°18'E longitude. It is bordered by Trà Vinh to the northeast, Vĩnh Long to the north, Hậu Giang to the northwest and Bạc Liêu to the south.