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Mekong Delta. Tiền River; Mỹ Tho River; Gò Công River; Bến Tre River; Ba Lai River; Cổ Chiên River; Hàm Luông River; Bình Di River; Châu Đốc River
Though the Red River Delta makes up only 5% of Vietnam's land, 30% of the country's population live there, making it the most densely populated part of the country. 80% of the population are employed in agriculture, but the agricultural lands of the delta amount to only about .3-.5 hectares per household, making the limited supply of arable ...
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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 ...
Both Mekong and the distributary Bassac then flow towards the Cambodia–Vietnam border. After entering Vietnam, Mekong is known as the Tiền River (or Fleuve Antérieur in French, meaning "prior river") while Bassac is known as the Hậu River (Vietnamese: Sông Hậu/ Hậu Giang or French: Fleuve Postérieur, meaning "posterior river"). [2]
Rivers of Vietnam (3 C ... Pages in category "Bodies of water of Vietnam" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
Once an inlet of the Gulf of Tonkin, it has been filled in by the enormous alluvial deposits of the rivers over a period of millennia, and it advances one hundred meters into the Gulf annually. [2] The ancestral home of the ethnic Vietnamese, the delta accounted for almost 70% of the agriculture and 80% of the industry of North Vietnam before 1975.
VIWA has jurisdiction of over 6,000 km of riverways, operating 15 stations and over 140 substations throughout the country. VIWA maintains over 14,000 navigation aids on Vietnam's rivers. Principal riverways under VIWA's purview include the Red River / Thái Bình Province area in the north, and the Mekong River system in the south. [2]