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Mekong

The Mekong or Mekong River is a transboundary river in and . It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia with an estimated length of 4,909 km and a drainage area of 795,000 km2, discharging 475 km3 of water annually.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: major river in Southeast Asia
  • Also known as: “Cambodia River”, “Cuu Long Giang”, “Dachu”, “Dza-chu”, “Lan Tsiang Kiang”, “Lan-Chan Chiang”, “Lan-ts’ang Chiang”, “Lan-tsan Kiang”, “Lancang Jiang”, “Lancang R.”, “Lancang River”, “Lang Tsang Kiang”, “Lantsan”, “Lantsang Kiang”, “Lantzan Kiang”, “Lantzan R.”, “Lantzan River”, “Lantzan-kiang”, “Mae Nam Khong”, “Mae Nam Phong”, “Maenam Kaung”, “Megaung Myit”, “Mègaung Myit”, “Mei Chiang”, “Mei Nam Kong”, “Mei-Kung Ho”, “Méigōnghé”, “Mekhong”, “Mekhong R.”, “Mekon”, “Mékong”, “Mekong R.”, “Mekong River”, “Mékôngk”, “Menam Kaung”, “Mènam Khong”, “Nam Hkawng”, “Song Cuu Long”, “Song Tien”, “Sông Tién Giang”, “Sông Tiền Giang”, and “Tonle Thom”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bình Đại.

Town
is a township and capital of District, Bến Tre Province, . is situated 9 km west of Mekong.

Mekong

Latitude
10.18714° or 10° 11′ 14″ north
Longitude
106.77641° or 106° 46′ 35″ east
Open location code
7P285QPG+VH
Geo­Names ID
1574716
Wiki­data ID
Q41179
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Mekong” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mekong”
  • Albanian: “Mekongu”
  • Arabic: “ميكونغ”
  • Arabic: “نهر ميكونغ”
  • Armenian: “Մեկոնգ”
  • Assamese: “মেকং নৈ”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Mekong”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mekonq çayı”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Mékong”
  • Bashkir: “Меконг”
  • Basque: “Mekong”
  • Belarusian: “Меконг”
  • Belarusian: “Мэконг”
  • Bengali: “মেকং নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “मीकोंग नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Mekong”
  • Breton: “Mekong”
  • Bulgarian: “Меконг”
  • Burmese: “မဲခေါင်မြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Mekong”
  • Catalan: “Riu Mekong”
  • Cebuano: “Mekong River”
  • Central Bikol: “Mekong”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری مێکۆنگ”
  • Chinese: “Mekong Hô”
  • Chinese: “湄公河”
  • Chinese: “澜沧江”
  • Croatian: “Mekong”
  • Czech: “Lancang Jiang”
  • Czech: “Mekong”
  • Danish: “Lancan Jiang”
  • Danish: “Mekong”
  • Danish: “Mekongfloden”
  • Dutch: “Mekhong”
  • Dutch: “Mekong”
  • Esperanto: “Mekongo”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Mekongo”
  • Estonian: “Mekong”
  • Estonian: “Mekongi jõgi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mekong Naddi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mekong”
  • Finnish: “Mekong-joki”
  • Finnish: “Mekong”
  • French: “Fleuve de Mékong”
  • French: “Lancang Jiang”
  • French: “Lantsang”
  • French: “Mékong”
  • French: “Rivière Lancang-Mékong”
  • French: “Rivière Lancang”
  • Galician: “Río Mekong”
  • Georgian: “მეკონგი”
  • German: “Lancang Jiang”
  • German: “Maekong”
  • German: “Mekong”
  • German: “Moi Kong”
  • Gorontalo: “Dutula Mekong”
  • Greek: “Μεκόνγκ”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Mekong”
  • Hebrew: “מקונג”
  • Hebrew: “נהר המקונג”
  • Hindi: “मिकोंग नदी”
  • Hindi: “मीकांग नदी”
  • Hindi: “मेकांग नदी”
  • Hindi: “मेकोगं नदी”
  • Hindi: “मेकोंग नदी”
  • Hindi: “मेकोगं”
  • Hungarian: “Mekong”
  • Iban: “Sungai Mekong”
  • Icelandic: “Mekong”
  • Ido: “Mekong”
  • Inari Sami: “Mekong”
  • Inari Sami: “Mekongjuuhâ”
  • Indonesian: “Mekong”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Mekong”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Mekong”
  • Irish: “An Mekong”
  • Italian: “Me Kong”
  • Italian: “Mê Kông”
  • Italian: “Mekong”
  • Japanese: “メコン”
  • Japanese: “メコン川”
  • Japanese: “メコン河”
  • Javanese: “Kali Mekong”
  • Kazakh: “Меконг”
  • Khmer: “ទនេ្លមេគង្គ”
  • Khmer: “ទន្លេមេគង្គ”
  • Kirghiz: “Меконг”
  • Korean: “끄울룽 강”
  • Korean: “메콩 강”
  • Korean: “메콩강”
  • Kurdish: “Mêkong”
  • Lao: “ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ”
  • Latin: “Mecon”
  • Latvian: “Mekonga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Mecong”
  • Lithuanian: “Lankangas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mekongas”
  • Macedonian: “Меконг”
  • Malay: “Sungai Mekong”
  • Malayalam: “മെകോങ്”
  • Marathi: “मिकांग नदी”
  • Marathi: “मेकाँग नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “مکونگ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mekong Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “მეკონგი”
  • Mongolian: “Меконг мөрөн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “واد ميكونݣ”
  • Nepali: “मेकङ नदी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mekong”
  • Northern Sami: “Mekong”
  • Northern Sami: “Mekongjohka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lancang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lanchang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mekong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mekongelven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mekong”
  • Norwegian: “Mekong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mekong”
  • Ossetian: “Меконг”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਕਾਂਗ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “رود مکونگ”
  • Persian: “رودخانه مکونگ”
  • Persian: “رودخانهٔ مکونگ”
  • Persian: “مکونگ”
  • Polish: “Mekong”
  • Portuguese: “Mecão”
  • Portuguese: “Mecom”
  • Portuguese: “Mekong”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Mecom”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Mekong”
  • Pushto: “ميکونګ سيند”
  • Romanian: “Mekong”
  • Romanian: “râul Mekong”
  • Russian: “Дзачу”
  • Russian: “Ланьцанцзян”
  • Russian: “Меконг”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱮᱠᱚᱝ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mekong”
  • Scots: “Mekong”
  • Serbian: “Dza-cza”
  • Serbian: “Lancang-ciang”
  • Serbian: “Me Kong”
  • Serbian: “Me Nam Khong”
  • Serbian: “Me Nam Kong”
  • Serbian: “Меконг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mekong”
  • Silesian: “Mekůng”
  • Sinhala: “මේකොං ගඟ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mekong”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mekongjokk”
  • Slovak: “Mekong”
  • Slovenian: “Mekong”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مکونق چایی”
  • Spanish: “Mekong”
  • Spanish: “Rio Mekong”
  • Spanish: “Río Mekong”
  • Swahili: “Mekong”
  • Swedish: “Meigong”
  • Swedish: “Mekong”
  • Swedish: “Mekongfloden”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Mekong”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Меконг”
  • Tajik: “Меконг”
  • Tamil: “மீக்கோங் ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “மீக்கோங்”
  • Tamil: “மேக்காங்”
  • Tatar: “Мекоң”
  • Telugu: “మెకాంగ్ నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำของ”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำโขง”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำล้านช้าง”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำหลานชางเจียง”
  • Thai: “ลุ่มน้ำโขง”
  • Tibetan: “ཟླ་ཆུ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཟླ་ཆུ།”
  • Turkish: “Mekong Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Mekong”
  • Udmurt: “Меконг”
  • Ukrainian: “Меконг”
  • Ukrainian: “Меконґ”
  • Urdu: “دریائے میکانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Mekong”
  • Vietnamese: “Lan Thương”
  • Vietnamese: “Mê Công”
  • Vietnamese: “Mê Kông Sông”
  • Vietnamese: “Mê Kông”
  • Vietnamese: “Mêkông”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Mê Kông”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Mékong”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mekong”
  • Welsh: “Afon Mekong”
  • Western Frisian: “Mekong”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے میکانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “Mekong”
  • Wu Chinese: “湄公河”
  • Wu Chinese: “澜沧江”
  • Yiddish: “מעקאנג”
  • Yue Chinese: “Mekong”
  • Yue Chinese: “River of Cochinchina”
  • Yue Chinese: “湄公河”
  • Yue Chinese: “越南江”
  • Zhuang: “Dahmeizgunghhoz”
  • “मीकांग नदी”

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