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This is a list of streams and rivers in Vietnam: Northwestern. Northwestern Vietnam. Black River (Asia) Ma River; Nanxi River (Yunnan) Bôi River; Northeastern
B. Ba Lai River. Ba River (Vietnam) Bản Thín River. Bắc Giang River. Bắc Khê River. Bạch Đằng River. Bằng River. Banghiang River.
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.
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 ...
S. South China Sea. Categories: Landforms of Vietnam. Bodies of water by country. Water in Vietnam. Bodies of water of Asia by country. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
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 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.
The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng 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 population ...