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Red River - China, Vietnam - South China Sea; Rio Grande de Mindanao - Philippines; ... Largest primary rivers of Asia by discharge: River Average discharge (m 3 /s ...
This is a list of longest rivers of Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. River
A 1945 map showing the two Kapuas rivers of Borneo (Kapoeas on the map) The Kapuas River (Old Indonesian spelling: Kapoeas River) is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia. At 1,143 km (710 mi) in length, it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river in ...
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luzon, Mindoro and Palawan), and in the south by Borneo, eastern Sumatra and the Bangka Belitung Islands, encompassing an area of around 3,500,000 km 2 (1,400,000 sq mi).
Kapuas River in Indonesia; at 1,000 km (620 mi) in length, it is the longest river in Borneo. [23] List of longest river in Borneo by length. Kapuas River 1,143 km (710 mi) Barito River 1,090 km (680 mi) Mahakam River 980 km (610 mi) Kahayan River 658 km (409 mi) Mendawai River 616 km (383 mi) Kayan River 576 km (358 mi) Rajang River 565 km ...
Boats on the Red River Wharf by painter Đỗ Đức Thuận in 1930. In the 19th century, the Red River was thought to be a lucrative trade route to China. The late 19th-century French explorers were able to travel up the Red River until Manhao in South Yunnan, and then overland toward Kunming. [5]
The Mekong River, one of the world's major rivers, drains into the South China Sea. It is the 11th-longest river in the world, and the 12th-largest by volume (discharging 475 cubic kilometres (114 cu mi) of water annually). Its estimated length is 4,880 kilometres (3,030 mi), and it drains an area of 810,000 square kilometres (310,000 sq mi).
The "Great River" with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子 江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire By the Han dynasty , Jiāng had come to mean any river in Chinese, and this river was distinguished as the "Great River" 大江 ( Dàjiāng ).