Red River
The Red River or the Hong River, also known as the Sông Cái in Vietnamese and the Yuan River in Chinese, is a 1,149-kilometer -long river that flows from Yunnan in Southwest China through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southwest China and northern Vietnam
- Also known as: “Fu-Liang Chiang”, “Hong River”, “Hung Chiang”, “Hung Ho”, “Red”, “Red Koi Ho”, “Riviere Rouge”, “Rivière Rouge”, “Song Ca”, “Song Cai”, “Sông Cái”, “Sông Hồng Hà”, “Song Ka”, “Song Koi”, “Yüan Chiang”, “Yuan River”, and “Yuang Kiang”
Red River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Red River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rooirivier”
- Arabic: “النهر الأحمر”
- Armenian: “Հոնգհա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Red”
- Azerbaijani: “Xonqxa çayı”
- Basque: “Ibai Gorria”
- Belarusian: “Рака Хонгха”
- Belarusian: “Хангха”
- Belarusian: “Хонгха”
- Belarusian: “Хунхэ”
- Belarusian: “Чырвоная рака”
- Belarusian: “Юаньцзян”
- Bengali: “ইয়ুয়ান নদী”
- Bengali: “লাল নদী”
- Breton: “Stêr Ruz”
- Bulgarian: “Хонгха”
- Catalan: “Riu Honghe”
- Catalan: “riu Roig”
- Catalan: “Riu Roig”
- Catalan: “Riu Vermell”
- Cebuano: “Red River”
- Central Bikol: “Salog Pula (Asya)”
- Central Bikol: “Salog Pula”
- Chinese: “紅河”
- Chinese: “红河”
- Croatian: “Crvena rijeka”
- Czech: “Červená řeka”
- Czech: “Rudá řeka”
- Czech: “Sông Hồng”
- Danish: “Den røde flod”
- Danish: “Røde Flod”
- Dutch: “Rode Rivier”
- Dutch: “Song Hong”
- Dutch: “Song Nhi Ha”
- Dutch: “Sông Nhi Ha”
- Dutch: “Songkoi”
- Dutch: “Yuan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “النهر الاحمر”
- Esperanto: “Ruĝa rivero”
- Estonian: “Hong Ha”
- Estonian: “Hồng Hà”
- Estonian: “Punane jõgi”
- Finnish: “Punainen joki”
- Finnish: “Punainenjoki”
- Finnish: “Song Chay”
- French: “fleuve Rouge”
- French: “Fleuve Rouge”
- French: “Hong He”
- French: “Hong Song”
- French: “Sông Hồng”
- Georgian: “ჰონგჰა”
- German: “Roter Fluss”
- German: “Roter Fluß”
- German: “Song Hong”
- German: “Sông Hồng”
- German: “Yuánjiāng”
- Greek: “Ερυθρός Ποταμός”
- Hebrew: “הנהר האדום”
- Hungarian: “Vörös-folyó”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Merah (Asia)”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Merah”
- Irish: “Abhainn Red”
- Italian: “Fiume Rosso”
- Italian: “Fiume Yuan”
- Japanese: “ソンコイ”
- Japanese: “ソンコイ川”
- Japanese: “ホン川”
- Japanese: “紅河”
- Kazakh: “Хонгха”
- Kirghiz: “Хонгха”
- Korean: “송코이 강”
- Korean: “홍강”
- Korean: “홍하”
- Korean: “훙허”
- Lao: “ແມ່ນ້ຳແດງ (ອາຊີ)”
- Lao: “ແມ່ນ້ຳແດງ”
- Latin: “Flumen Rubrum (Asia)”
- Latin: “Flumen Rubrum”
- Latvian: “Hona”
- Lithuanian: “Hongha”
- Macedonian: “Хунгхе”
- Macedonian: “Црвена Река”
- Malayalam: “റെഡ് റിവർ (ഏഷ്യ)”
- Malayalam: “റെഡ് റിവർ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “È̤ng-ò̤”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den røde elv”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den røde elva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den røde flod”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hong He”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lô”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yuan Jiang”
- Norwegian: “Den røde elv”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fluvi Roge”
- Persian: “رود سرخ”
- Polish: “Rzeka Czerwona”
- Portuguese: “Rio Vermelho”
- Russian: “Красная река”
- Russian: “Сонгкой”
- Russian: “Сонгхонг”
- Russian: “Хонгха”
- Russian: “Хунхэ”
- Russian: “Юаньцзян”
- Serbian: “Crvena reka”
- Serbian: “Црвена река”
- Slovak: “Červená rieka”
- Slovenian: “Rdeča reka (Azija)”
- Slovenian: “Rdeča reka”
- South Azerbaijani: “قیٛرمیز چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio rojo”
- Spanish: “Río Rojo”
- Swahili: “Mto Mwekundu”
- Swedish: “Hồng Hà”
- Swedish: “Hónghé”
- Swedish: “Röda floden”
- Swedish: “Song Hong”
- Swedish: “Sông Hồng”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำแดง”
- Turkish: “Kızıl Nehir”
- Ukrainian: “Хонгха”
- Urdu: “دریائے سرخ”
- Uzbek: “Xongxa”
- Venetian: “Fiume Rojo”
- Vietnamese: “Nậm Tà”
- Vietnamese: “Nhĩ Hà”
- Vietnamese: “Nhị hà”
- Vietnamese: “sông Hồng”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Hồng”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Nhĩ Hà”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Nhị Hà”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Nhị”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Pula (Asya)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Pula”
- Welsh: “Afon Red”
- Wu Chinese: “红河”
- Yue Chinese: “紅河”
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