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The Red River, also known as the Hong River (traditional Chinese: 紅河; simplified Chinese: 红河; pinyin: Hóng Hé; Vietnamese: Sông Hồng; Chữ Nôm: 瀧紅) and Sông Cái (lit. "Main River"; Chữ Nôm: 瀧丐) in Vietnamese, [3] [4] and the Yuan River (元江, Yuán Jiāng) in Chinese, is a 1,149-kilometer (714 mi)-long river that ...
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 ...
Hong River (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "China–Vietnam border" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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Regions of Vietnam Topographic map 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.
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]
From the modern perspective, its name Hồng-lĩnh (national voice) or Hông-lịnh (local voice) is often understood as "the red river". For example : "O my Ha-tịnh, the blue river is reflecting the red mountain". However, this is the wrong way of interpreting, which is derived from the signing in Hanese characters.
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