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Mekong River |
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Mekong RiverChinese Lancang Jiang or Lan-Ts'ang ChiangLongest river of Southeast Asia. Rising in southern Qinghai province, China, it flows south through eastern Tibet and across the highlands of Yunnan province. It then forms part of the border between Myanmar (Burma) and Laos, as well as between Laos and Thailand. It runs through Laos and Cambodia before entering the South China Sea in a delta south of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam after a course of 2,700 mi (4,350 km). Vientiane, Laos, and Phnom Penh, Camb., stand on its banks. Since 1957 the Mekong Committee, an international effort, has initiated projects to harness the river for hydroelectricity and irrigation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Mekong River is to the South China Sea as the Po River is to what? All infections were acquired in Africa except 1, which was acquired by a traveler who had bathed in the Mekong River in East Asia. The Kunming-Bangkok highway project is part of a far more ambitious Asian Development Bank (ADB) plan to integrate the Mekong River countries of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam with China's southwestern Yunnan Province and its Guangxi autonomous region and also turn the region into a crossroads by eventually reopening an east-west road connecting China and India. |
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