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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 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 joined Delta of Hong River (Red River) and Thái Bình River is a flat, triangular region of 15,000 square kilometres (5,800 sq mi). [1] The Hong River Delta is smaller but more intensely developed and more densely populated than the Mekong Delta.
The whole province area is in the lower section of Mekong River. Its current terrain surface and land was created by the accumulation of Mekong river silt during the development process of the modern delta in the marine regression period from the mid-Holocene (about 5,000 – 4,500 years to the present), which is also called new silt.
Map of the Laos–Thailand border. The Laos–Thailand border is the international border between the territory of Laos and Thailand.The border is 1,845 km (1,146 mi) in length, over half of which follows the Mekong River, and runs from the tripoint with Myanmar in the north to tripoint with Cambodia in the south.
The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as "catchments" or, in North American usage, "watersheds"), sorted by area, which drain to oceans, mediterranean seas, rivers, lakes and other water bodies.
Red River Delta: 0.768 2 Southeast: 0.737 — Vietnam (average) 0.726: 3: North Central Coast and South Central Coast: 0.711 Medium human development 4 Northeast and Northwest: 0.685 Central Highlands: 5: Mekong River Delta: 0.684
The Mekong River flows in from the northeast and the Tonle Sap river emanates from the Tonle Sap—flows in from the northwest. They divide into two parallel channels, the Mekong River proper and the Bassac River, and flow independently through the delta areas of Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea.