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The reddish-brown heavily silt-laden water gives the river its name. The Red River is notorious for its violent floods with its seasonally wide volume fluctuations. Intense seasonal floods are made worse by erosion, development, and pollution. The delta is a major agricultural area of Vietnam with vast area devoted to rice.
The confluence of the Red River and the Longbao River, where the China-Vietnam border leaves the Red River. The land border of China and Vietnam is 1,347 kilometers. [3]: 95 Two Chinese provinces adjoin the border, and seven Vietnamese provinces do. [3]: 94–95 The terrestrial border begins in the west at the China-Laos-Vietnam tripoint at the ...
The Hong River Delta is the cradle of the Vietnamese nation. Water puppetry originated in the rice paddies here. The region was bombed by United States warplanes during the Vietnam War. The region was designated as the Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve as part of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 2004. [6]
Geography of Vietnam. Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia.
Chung Ying Street at the border of Shenzhen and Hong Kong Border guard booth on Lovers South Road in Zhuhai, with Macao The Red River, the border between China and Vietnam. The Sino-Nepalese border passes through Mount Everest. The Khunjerab Pass, at the border between China and Pakistan. China's northernmost border in the middle of the Amur ...
Hong River (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "China–Vietnam border" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
e. Vietnam under Chinese rule or Bắc thuộc (北屬, lit. "belonging to the north") [1][2] (111 BC–939, 1407–1428) refers to four historical periods when several portions of modern-day Northern Vietnam was under the rule of various Chinese dynasties. Bắc thuộc in Vietnamese historiography is traditionally considered to have started ...
International rivers of Asia. Gulf of Tonkin. China–Vietnam border. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after rivers.