Search results for "Mekong River" - New World Encyclopedia
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- in north central Laos, is situated on the Mekong River about 425|km|mi north of Vientiane, the capital of Louangphrabang Province. The town of Luang ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- from the Mekong river in Champassak province. Previously named Shrestapura ... The Mekong river represented the ocean or the Ganges River. ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- Lao and Thai people living along the Mekong River. In Thailand, the nāga ... phenomenon occurs in the area of the Mekong River stretching over 20 kilometers ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- parasite to attack humans, as well as Mekong giant catfish, the largest ... Catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest, the Mekong giant ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 13 January 2023
- A river is a natural waterway that conveys water derived from precipitation ... ==Origins of river water== A river may have its source in a spring ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- while both the Yangtze and the Mekong River also have their sources ... * Mekong River * Qaidam River * Jinsha River * Tongjian River ...18 KB (2,519 words) - 04:02, 7 December 2022
- , with some plains and plateaus. The Mekong River forms a large part of ... The Mekong River, which flows through what is now Laos, was a migration ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- The geography of Cambodia is dominated by the Mekong River, colloquially ... at the end of the rainy season when the Mekong River begins to sink back to ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- The Yangtze River or Chang Jiang ( t=長江 |s=长江|p=Cháng Jiāng ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- and more densely populated than the Mekong River Delta. Once an inlet of ... The Khmer Krom are found in the delta of the Mekong River, in the ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- proposed Columbia Valley Authority for the Columbia River. ... * White, Peter T. and W.E. Garrett, "The Mekong: River Of Terror ...28 KB (4,146 words) - 03:01, 19 April 2023
- Indus, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Yellow—could disappear by 2035 as temperatures rise. [http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory ...11 KB (1,569 words) - 09:42, 15 January 2023
- eight small villages along the Kuskokwim River. Bethel is far removed from ... by the Navy as PACV patrol craft in the Mekong Delta where their mobility ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- entered the region from the upper Yangtze River and set himself up as "King ... collects the waters from the east. The Mekong River, which flows from Tibet ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Pacific. In 1890 he journeyed up the Congo River in west Africa, a journey ... (played by Martin Sheen), sent up the Mekong River to kill a rogue Colonel ...22 KB (3,425 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- Range of Central Thailand, and overlooking the Mekong River in Nakorn Sawan Province, all contain galleries of rock paintings. In Malaysia the ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- cultivate lychees and strawberries. Steep river valleys cut into these high ... Plateau, bordered on the east by the Mekong river. The soils are poor, and ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- or whiprays) and Potamotrygoninae (river sitngrays), and he recognizes ... ** Mekong stingray, Dasyatis laosensis (Roberts & Karnasuta, 1987). ...25 KB (3,545 words) - 18:03, 21 October 2022
- source of three of the world's major river systems: the Indus Basin ... source of three of the world's major river systems: the Indus Basin ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- "Central States" along the Yellow River valley and was not associated ... the Yangtze (central), the Huang He (Yellow River) (north-central), and the ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
