The Mekong River

The Mekong is in two sections. The upper Mekong streams from north to Phnom Penh. It moves through Kampong Chamm, Kratie, and Stung Treng from Lao. The lower Mekong streams south from Phnom Penh into Vietnam. Phnom Penh, hence, lies in the center, between the upper Mekong and lower Mekong. The Mekong is utilized for travel. Close to the riverbanks, agriculturists work in their ranches. The fields have rich soil which originated from the surge water of the waterway . The surge water likewise goes into the Tonle Sap, which makes it stream north into the Tonle Sap lake.

The Mekong is a trans-limit stream in Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest river[2] and the seventh longest in Asia. Its evaluated length is 4,350 km (2,703 mi),[2] and it depletes a territory of 795,000 km2 (307,000 sq mi), releasing 457 km3 (110 cu mi) of water annually.[3]

From the Tibetan Plateau the waterway goes through China's Yunnan region, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. In 1995, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam built up the Mekong River Commission to help with the administration and facilitated utilization of the Mekong's assets. In 1996 China and Burma (Myanmar) got to be "dialog accomplices" of the MRC and the six nations now cooperate inside of a helpful system.

The great regular varieties in stream and the vicinity of rapids and waterfalls in the Mekong make route troublesome. Indeed, even along these lines, the stream is a noteworthy exchange course between western China and Southeast

In English the stream is known as the "Mekong River", got from "Mae Nam Khong", a term of both Thai and Lao source. In the Lao-Thai toponymy, "streams" means "mother of water", motioned by the prefix "mae", signifying "mother", and "nam" for water. In the Mekong's case, Mae Nam Khong signifies "Khong, The mother of water".[4] Many Northern Thai and Laos local people allude to it as the "Stream Khong". Such is the situation with the Mae Nam Ping in Chiang Mai which is known as the "Ping River". The Tonle Sap in Cambodia is a comparable illustration – where Tonle interprets as "incredible lake" or "extraordinary waterway", making the Tonle Sap River a superfluous reiteration of what is truth be told the "Sap River". In Khmer dialect, Mékôngk signifies "Mother of water" interpreted as Mé "Mother" and kôngk for kôngkea "water".

The Mekong ascends as the Za Qu and soon gets to be known as the Lancang (Lantsang) in the "Three Rivers Source Area" on the Tibetan Plateau in the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve; the store ensures the headwaters of, from north to south, the Yellow (Huang He), the Mekong, and the Yangtze Rivers.[3] It courses through the Tibetan Autonomous Region and after that southeast into Yunnan Province, and afterward through the Three Parallel Rivers Area in the Hengduan Mountains, alongside the Yangtze to its east and the Salween River (Nujiang in Chinese) to its west.

The Mekong then meets the tripoint of China, (Burma) and Laos. From that point it streams southwest and structures the outskirt of Burma and Laos for around 100 kilometers (62 mi) until it lands at the tripoint of Burma, Laos, and Thailand. This is additionally the purpose of conjunction between the Ruak River (which takes after the Thai-Burma outskirt) and the Mekong. The territory of this tripoint is some of the time termed the Golden Triangle, despite the fact that the term additionally alludes to the much bigger zone of those three nations that is famous as a medication delivering district.

From the Golden Triangle tripoint, the Mekong swings southeast to quickly frame the outskirt of Laos with Thailand. It then transforms east into the inside of Laos, streaming first east and after that south for somewhere in the range of 400 kilometers (250 mi) before meeting the fringe with Thailand once more. Again, it characterizes the Laos-Thailand fringe for somewhere in the range of 850 kilometers (530 mi) as it streams first east, going before the capital of Laos, Vientiane, then turns south. A second time, the stream leaves the outskirt and streams east into Laos soon passing the city of Pakse. From that point, it turns and runs pretty much specifically south, crossing into Cambodia.

At Phnom Penh the stream is joined on the right bank by the waterway and lake framework the Tonlé Sap. At the point when the Mekong is low, the Tonle Sap is a tributary; water streams from the lake and waterway into the Mekong. At the point when the Mekong surges, the stream inverts; the floodwaters of the Mekong stream up the Tonle Sap.

Instantly after the Sap River joins the Mekong by Phnom Penh, the Bassac River branches off the right (west) bank. The Bassac River is the first and principle distributary of the Mekong; therefore, this is the start of the Mekong Delta. The two waterways, the Bassac toward the west and the Mekong toward the east, enter Vietnam not long after this. In Vietnam, the Bassac is known as the Hậu River (Sông Hậu or Hậu Giang); the primary, eastern, branch of the Mekong is known as the Tiền River or Tiền Giang. In Vietnam, distributaries of the eastern (primary, Mekong) branch incorporate the Mỹ Tho River, the Ba Lai River, the Hàm Luông River,