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Mekong River

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Mekong River

 Chinese Lancang Jiang or Lan-Ts'ang Chiang

Longest 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.
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The Mekong River is to the South China Sea as the Po River is to what?
All over the map: test your geographic savvy by New York Times Upfront
All infections were acquired in Africa except 1, which was acquired by a traveler who had bathed in the Mekong River in East Asia.
Schistosomiasis among travelers: new aspects of an old disease by Schwartz, Eli / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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.
Image wars: China versus the United States by Marshall, Tyler / The National Interest
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