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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 ...
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.
Many place-names in Vietnam incorporate the word Long, or Rồng ("dragon" in Vietnamese): Hạ Long Bay (vịnh Hạ Long, lit. "Bay of Descending Dragon"), the section of the Mekong river flowing through Vietnam contains 9 branches and is called Cửu Long ("nine dragons"); Hàm Rồng Bridge (lit."Bridge of Dragon Jaw"), Long Biên Bridge ...
Hoa Lư experiences a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cwa) with mild winters and hot, humid summers. The coldest month is January with a mean temperature of 16.6 °C (61.9 °F) and the warmest month is July with a mean temperature of 29.2 °C (84.6 °F).
By texts from Thiều Chửu, Dr. Lê Chí Quế and Trần Chí Dõi, its name Cửa-lùa (before) or Cửa-lò (in present) was a classical Annamese pronunciation of Malayo-Polynesian word keluar, or kuala, or simply k'la (kẻ-la, what is similar cổ-loa [1]) which means the point where two rivers join or an estuary. [2]
Its name La Gi or Lagi [laː˧˧:ɣi˧˧] in Kinh language was originated from ladik [1] [laː˧˧:ɗɨt˧˥] in Cham language, which means "swamp" to reflect the situation of this area before the 1960s. Under the Republic of Vietnam regime, La Gi was the provincial capital of Bình Tuy province (present-day
Vĩnh Long is on the Cổ Chiên River, which branches out from the Mekong River at the narrows of Mỹ Thuận about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) upstream, only to meet it later downstream. Across the Cổ Chiên river from Vĩnh Long are the An Binh and Bình Hòa Phước islands, some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) across, with the Mekong River on the ...
The Tiền River (Vietnamese: Sông Tiền 瀧前 or Tiền Giang 前江) is the name given to the section of the Mekong’s mainstream in Vietnam. [1] At Phnom Penh, the Bassac River branches off from Mekong River. Both Mekong and the distributary Bassac then flow towards the Cambodia–Vietnam border.