Bassac River
The Bassac River or Hậu River is a distributary of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong River. The river starts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and flows southerly, crossing the border into Vietnam near Châu Đốc.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Bassac Fleuve”, “Bassac Fleuve Postérieur”, “Fleuve Postérieur”, “Fleuve Postérieur Bassac”, “Sông Hậu Giang”, “Tonle Basak”, and “Tonle Bassac”
Bassac River
- Categories: river, distributary, and body of water
- Location: Cambodia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bassac River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر باساك”
- Asturian: “Ríu Bassac”
- Cebuano: “Tônlé Basăk”
- Chinese: “巴萨河”
- Chinese: “巴薩河”
- Czech: “Bassac”
- Dutch: “Hậu”
- French: “Bassac”
- French: “fleuve Postérieur”
- German: “Bassac”
- Hebrew: “בסאק”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Bassac”
- Irish: “Abhainn Bassac”
- Italian: “Bassac”
- Japanese: “ハウ川”
- Japanese: “後江”
- Khmer: “ទន្លេបាសាក់”
- Korean: “바싹 강”
- Korean: “바싹강”
- Lithuanian: “Basakas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bassac”
- Norwegian: “Bassac”
- Polish: “Bassac”
- Polish: “Tônlé Basăk”
- Portuguese: “Rio Bassac”
- Russian: “Бассак”
- Spanish: “Río Bassac”
- Swedish: “Bassacfloden”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำบาสัก”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเห่า”
- Turkish: “Basak Nehri”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Hậu”
- Welsh: “Afon Bassac”
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