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The Mekong or Mekong River (UK: / m iː ˈ k ɒ ŋ / mee-KONG, US: / ˌ m eɪ ˈ k ɔː ŋ / may-KAWNG) [1] [2] is a transboundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia [3] with an estimated length of 4,909 km (3,050 mi) [3] and a drainage area of 795,000 km 2 (307,000 sq mi), discharging 475 km 3 (114 cu mi) of water ...
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 ...
Bahasa Indonesia; မြန်မာဘာသာ ... Mekong River: Height: 132 m (433 ft) Reservoir; Total capacity: 920,000,000 m 3 (745,856 acre⋅ft) Power Station ...
Bahasa Indonesia; Bahasa Melayu; ... The Greater Mekong Subregion, (GMS) or just Greater Mekong, is a trans-national region of the Mekong River basin in Southeast ...
The Jinghong Dam (Chinese: 景洪大坝) is a gravity dam composed of roller-compacted concrete on the Lancang (Mekong) River near Jinghong in Yunnan Province, China.The main purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production and it has an associated 1,750 MW power station. [1]
The Mekong River — an international river flowing in Southeast Asia, from Tibet to the Mekong Delta on the South China Sea The main article for this category is Mekong . Subcategories
Bahasa Indonesia; Italiano; ... Hemimyzon khonensis, a species of hillstream loach, is known from a single specimen collected in the Mekong at the Khone Falls. [3]
Map of the Laos-Myanmar border. The Laos–Myanmar border is the international border between the territory of Laos and Myanmar (formerly Burma).The border is 238 km (148 mi) in length and runs entirely along the Mekong river from the tripoint with China in the north to the tripoint with Thailand in the south.