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: “Abhainn Mekong”, “Cambodia River”, “Cuu Long Giang”, “Dachu”, “Dza-chu”, “Dza-cza”, “Fleuve de Mékong”, “Lan Thương”, “Lan Tsiang Kiang”, “Lan-Chan Chiang”, “Lan-ts’ang Chiang”, “Lan-tsan Kiang”, “Lancan Jiang”, “Lancang”, “Lancang Jiang”, “Lancang R.”, “Lancang River”, “Lancang-ciang”, “Lanchang”, “Lang Tsang Kiang”, “Lankangas”, “Lantsan”, “Lantsang”, “Lantsang Kiang”, “Lantzan Kiang”, “Lantzan R.”, “Lantzan River”, “Lantzan-kiang”, “Mae Nam Khong”, “Mae Nam Phong”, “Maekong”, “Maenam Kaung”, “Mê Công”, “Me Kong”, “Mê Kông Sông”, “Me Nam Khong”, “Me Nam Kong”, “Mecão”, “Mecom”, “Megaung Myit”, “Mègaung Myit”, “Mei Chiang”, “Mei Nam Kong”, “Mei-Kung Ho”, “Meigong”, “Méigōnghé”, “Mekhong”, “Mekhong R.”, “Mekon”, “Mêkông”, “Mekong Nehri”, “Mekong R.”, “Mekong River”, “Mekong-joki”, “Mekongelven”, “Mekongfloden”, “Mekongi jõgi”, “Mékôngk”, “Menam Kaung”, “Mènam Khong”, “Moi Kong”, “Nam Hkawng”, “râul Mekong”, “Riu Mekong”, “River of Cochinchina”, “Rivero Mekongo”, “Rivière Lancang”, “Rivière Lancang-Mékong”, “Song Cuu Long”, “Sông Mê Kông”, “Sông Mékong”, “Song Tien”, “Sông Tién Giang”, “Sông Tiền Giang”, “Tonle Thom”, “Дзачу”, “Ланьцанцзян”, “Меконґ”, “נהר המקונג”, “رود مکونگ”, “رودخانه مکونگ”, “رودخانهٔ مکونگ”, “ميكونغ”, “मिकोंग नदी”, “मेकांग नदी”, “मेकोगं”, “मेकोगं नदी”, “मेकोंग नदी”, “மீக்கோங்”, “மேக்காங்”, “แม่น้ำของ”, “แม่น้ำล้านช้าง”, “แม่น้ำหลานชางเจียง”, “ลุ่มน้ำโขง”, “ཟླ་ཆུ་”, “ទនេ្លមេគង្គ”, “끄울룽 강”, “메콩 강”, “メコン”, “メコン河”, “澜沧江”, and “越南江”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bình Đại.

Town
is a ward of Vĩnh Long 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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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Mekong” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mekong”
  • Albanian: “Mekongu”
  • 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”
  • Cebuano: “Mekong River”
  • Central Bikol: “Mekong”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری مێکۆنگ”
  • Chinese: “湄公河”
  • Croatian: “Mekong”
  • Czech: “Mekong”
  • Danish: “Mekong”
  • Dutch: “Mekong”
  • Esperanto: “Mekongo”
  • Estonian: “Mekong”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mekong Naddi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mekong”
  • Finnish: “Mekong”
  • French: “Mékong”
  • Galician: “Río Mekong”
  • Georgian: “მეკონგი”
  • German: “Mekong”
  • Gorontalo: “Dutula Mekong”
  • Greek: “Μεκόνγκ”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Mekong”
  • Hebrew: “מקונג”
  • Hindi: “मीकांग नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Mekong”
  • Iban: “Sungai Mekong”
  • Icelandic: “Mekong”
  • Ido: “Mekong”
  • Inari Sami: “Mekongjuuhâ”
  • Indonesian: “Mekong”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Mekong”
  • Irish: “An Mekong”
  • Italian: “Mekong”
  • Japanese: “メコン川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Mekong”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಕಾಂಗ್ ನದಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Меконг”
  • Khmer: “ទន្លេមេគង្គ”
  • Kirghiz: “Меконг”
  • Korean: “메콩강”
  • Kurdish: “Mêkong”
  • Lao: “ແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ”
  • Latin: “Mecon”
  • Latvian: “Mekonga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Mecong”
  • 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: “Mekongjohka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mekong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mekong”
  • Norwegian: “Mekong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mekong”
  • Ossetian: “Меконг”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਕਾਂਗ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “مکونگ”
  • Polish: “Mekong”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Mecom”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Mekong”
  • Pushto: “ميکونګ سيند”
  • Rakhine: “မဲခေါင်မြစ်”
  • Romanian: “Mekong”
  • Russian: “Меконг”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱮᱠᱚᱝ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mekong”
  • Scots: “Mekong”
  • Serbian: “Меконг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mekong”
  • Silesian: “Mekůng”
  • Sinhala: “මේකොං ගඟ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mekongjokk”
  • Slovak: “Mekong”
  • Slovenian: “Mekong”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مکونق چایی”
  • Spanish: “Mekong”
  • Spanish: “Río Mekong”
  • Swahili: “Mekong”
  • Swedish: “Mekong”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Mekong”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Меконг”
  • Tajik: “Меконг”
  • Tamil: “மீக்கோங் ஆறு”
  • Tatar: “Мекоң”
  • Telugu: “మెకాంగ్ నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำโขง”
  • Tibetan: “ཟླ་ཆུ།”
  • Turkish: “Mekong”
  • Udmurt: “Меконг”
  • Ukrainian: “Меконг”
  • Urdu: “دریائے میکانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Mekong”
  • Vietnamese: “Mê Kông”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mekong”
  • Welsh: “Afon Mekong”
  • Western Frisian: “Mekong”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے میکانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “湄公河”
  • Yiddish: “מעקאנג”
  • Yue Chinese: “湄公河”
  • Zhuang: “Dahmeizgunghhoz”
  • “मीकांग नदी”

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