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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 ]
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 ...
The Mekong is a river in Southeast Asia. It is the world's 12th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia . From the Tibetan Plateau , this river runs through China 's Yunnan province, Myanmar , Laos , Thailand , Cambodia , and Vietnam .
The Greater Mekong Subregion, (GMS) or just Greater Mekong, is a trans-national region of the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The region is home to more than ...
After this area of near confluence, the rivers greatly diverge: the Nujiang River becomes Salween and empties out at Moulmein, Burma, into the Indian Ocean, the Lancang becomes the Mekong and south of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, empties out into the South China Sea and the Yangtze flows into the East China Sea at Shanghai. Selected nature ...
The Mekong Delta region (the location of the Six Provinces) was gradually annexed by Vietnam from the Khmer Empire starting in the mid 17th century to the early 19th century, through their Nam tiến territorial expansion campaign. [citation needed] In 1832, Emperor Minh Mạng divided Southern Vietnam into the six provinces Nam Kỳ Lục tỉnh.
The Mekong Delta region constituted for more than 800 years an integral part of the empire and the subsequent kingdom. [14] The region's economic center was the city of Prey Nokor, now Ho Chi Minh City .
The Mekong River — an international river flowing in Southeast Asia, from Tibet to the Mekong Delta on the South China Sea; Subcategories. This category has the ...