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South Central Coast. Cu Đê River; Hàn River; Túy Loan River; Yên River (Quảng Nam-Đà Nẵng) Cầu Đỏ/Cẩm Lệ River; Vu Gia River; Thu Bồn River; Trà Bồng River
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The origins of Vietnam's place names are diverse. They include vernacular Vietnamese language, tribal and montagnard, Chinese language (both from the Chinese domination of Vietnam and the indigenous Confucian administration afterward 1100-1900), Champa and Khmer language names, as well as a number of names influenced by contact with traders and French Indochina. [1]
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The Vu Gia is part of the Vu Gia–Thu Bồn river basin, and the Vu Gia and the Thu Bồn seasonally undergo exchange of flow. [3] Before 2000, most of the flow of the Vu Gia River went, through a multitude of different channels, into the Hàn river in Đà Nẵng, where it is an important source of freshwater. A large flood in 2000 created ...
The Vietnamese government often groups the various provinces and municipalities into three regions: Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam, and Southern Vietnam.These regions can be further subdivided into eight subregions: Northeast Vietnam, Northwest Vietnam, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast, the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, Southeast Vietnam, and the Mekong River Delta.
Vietnam has 2,360 rivers with an average annual discharge of 310 billion m 3. The rainy season accounts for 70% of the year's discharge. [363] Most of the country's urban water supply systems have been developed without proper management within the last 10 years. Based on a 2008 survey by the Vietnam Water Supply and Sewerage Association (VWSA ...
The Hong River Delta is the cradle of the Vietnamese nation. Water puppetry originated in the rice paddies here. The region was bombed by United States warplanes during the Vietnam War. The region was designated as the Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve as part of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 2004. [6]