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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.
UTC+7 (UTC +7) The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta (Vietnamese: Châu thổ sông Hồng) is the flat low-lying plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries merging with the Thái Bình River in northern Vietnam. Hồng (紅) is a Sino-Vietnamese word for "red" or "crimson". The delta has the smallest area but highest population and ...
Naf River - Myanmar, Bangladesh. Nagavalli River -India. Nakdong River - South Korea - Korea Strait. Nan River - Thailand. Narmada River - India (Gujarat) Nilwala River - Sri Lanka. Nizhnyaya Tunguska River (Lower Tunguska) - Russia. Ob - Russia (Siberia) - Gulf of Ob of the Arctic Ocean. Om - Russia.
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.
This is a list of longest rivers of Asia. Included are all rivers over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. ... Red River (Sông Hồng) [51] China, Vietnam: 1,200 746 59
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 Black River is the most important tributary of the Red River, ... La Dam was completed in 2012 and became the largest hydroelectric producer in Southeast Asia.