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Mekong Delta

The Mekong Delta, also known as the Western Region or South-western region, is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries.
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  • Type: Region with 17,100,000 residents
  • Description: region in southwestern Vietnam
  • Also known as: “South-western region” and “Western Region”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cần Thơ Bridge.

Bridge
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, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hậu River, the largest distributary of the Mekong River, in the city of in southern . The bridge is 2.75 kilometres long.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Can Tho and Bình Minh.

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is the biggest city of the Mekong Delta, in with an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2019. The name comes from "cầm thi giang", river of poems.

Town
Photo: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town of Vĩnh Long Province, in the Mekong Delta region of . Under the decree No 89/NQ-CP dated Dec 28, 2012, the cabinet of Vietnam SR decided to upgrade of Vĩnh Long to town from rural district. is situated 6 km north of Mekong Delta.

Mekong Delta

Latitude
10.0121° or 10° 0′ 44″ north
Longitude
105.8322° or 105° 49′ 56″ east
Population
17,100,000
Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)
Open location code
7P272R6J+RV
Geo­Names ID
11497302
Wiki­data ID
Q1052867
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mekong Delta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دلتا ميكونغ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mekonq deltası”
  • Basque: “Mekongen delta”
  • Belarusian: “Дэльта Меконга”
  • Bengali: “মেকং ব-দ্বীপ”
  • Bulgarian: “Делта на Меконг”
  • Bulgarian: “Донг Банг Сонг Ку Лонг”
  • Catalan: “delta del Mekong”
  • Catalan: “Delta del Mekong”
  • Cebuano: “Mekong Delta”
  • Chinese: “下高棉”
  • Chinese: “九龍江三角洲”
  • Chinese: “湄公河三角洲”
  • Czech: “delta Mekongu”
  • Dutch: “Mekong delta”
  • Dutch: “Mekong-delta”
  • Dutch: “Mekongdelta”
  • Esperanto: “Delto de la Mekonga Rivero”
  • Faroese: “Mekongósin”
  • Finnish: “Dong Bang Cuu Long”
  • Finnish: “Dong Bang Song Cuu Long”
  • Finnish: “Đồng Bằng Sông Cửu Long”
  • Finnish: “Mekongin suisto”
  • Finnish: “Mekongjoen suisto”
  • French: “delta du Mékong”
  • French: “Delta du Mékong”
  • German: “Mekong Delta”
  • German: “Mekong-Delta”
  • German: “Mekongdelta”
  • Greek: “Δέλτα του Μεκόνγκ”
  • Hebrew: “אזור נהר מקונג”
  • Hindi: “मीकांग डेल्टा”
  • Hindi: “मेकांग डेल्टा”
  • Hungarian: “Mekong-delta”
  • Indonesian: “Delta Mekong”
  • Italian: “Delta del Mekong”
  • Italian: “Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long”
  • Japanese: “メコン・デルタ”
  • Japanese: “メコンデルタ”
  • Khmer: “ដីសណ្តមេគង្គ”
  • Korean: “메콩 델타”
  • Korean: “메콩 삼각주”
  • Korean: “메콩강 델타”
  • Korean: “메콩강 삼각주”
  • Korean: “메콩강삼각주”
  • Lao: “ເຂດທົ່ງພຽງແມ່ນ້ຳຂອງ”
  • Lithuanian: “Mekongo delta”
  • Malay: “Delta Mekong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dong Bang Song Cuu Long”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mekongdeltaet”
  • Norwegian: “Mekongdeltaet”
  • Ossetian: “Меконджы дельтæ”
  • Persian: “دلتای رود مکونگ”
  • Persian: “دلتای مکونگ”
  • Persian: “مکونگ دلتا”
  • Polish: “Delta Mekongu”
  • Polish: “Region Delty Mekongu”
  • Portuguese: “Delta do Rio Mecom”
  • Portuguese: “Delta do Rio Mekong (região)”
  • Portuguese: “Delta do Rio Mekong”
  • Romanian: “delta Mekongului”
  • Russian: “Дельта Меконга”
  • Sindhi: “درياء ميڪانگ دھانا”
  • Slovenian: “Mekongova delta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دلتای رود مکونق”
  • Spanish: “Región del Delta del Río Mekong”
  • Spanish: “Region Delta del Rio Mekong”
  • Spanish: “Región Delta del Río Mekong”
  • Swedish: “Mekongdeltat”
  • Thai: “ดินดอนสามเหลี่ยมปากแม่น้ำโขง”
  • Thai: “สามเหลี่ยมปากแม่น้ำโขง”
  • Turkish: “Mekong Deltası”
  • Ukrainian: “Дельта Меконгу”
  • Urdu: “دریائے میکانگ دہانہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu thổ sông Cửu Long”
  • Vietnamese: “Đồng bằng Nam Bộ”
  • Vietnamese: “Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long”
  • Vietnamese: “Miền Tây Nam Bộ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Nam Bộ Việt Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây nam bộ”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng đồng bằng Nam Bộ”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng đồng bằng sông Cửu Long”
  • Yue Chinese: “湄公河三角洲”

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