The Mekong River is a major river in Southeast Asia.From its source in China's Qinghai Province near the border with Tibet,the Mekong flows southeast to the South China Sea.The Mekong crosses Yunnan Province,China,and forms the border between Myanmar (Burma) and Laos and most of the borde...
Mekong river The Mekong River is a major river in southeast-ern Asia. From its source in China's Qinghai Prov-ince near the border with Tibet, the Mekong flows generally southeast to the South Chin a Sea, a dis-tance of 4,200 km. The Mekong crosses Yunnan Province, China, and forms ...
The Mekong River is a major river in southeastern Asia.It is the longest.river in the region.From its source in China’s Qinghai Province,the Mekong River flows generally southeast to the South China Sea,a distance of 4200km.The Mekong River crosses Yunnan Province,China,and forms the border...
Some of the artifacts bear apparent similarities to objects found along the Yangtze River and in Southeast Asia, suggesting that the mysterious Shu civilization was involved in "broad exchanges with many areas," says Zhao Congcang, an archaeologist at Northwest University in Xi’...
River sediment fluxEast and Southeast AsiaWestern Pacific OceanDams and reservoirsClimate changeThe five largest rivers in East and Southeast Asia (Yellow, Yangtze, Pearl, Red and Mekong) are important contributors of terrigenous sediment to the western Pacific Ocean. Although they have annually ...
From where, it runs as Salween River for another 1,227 km through Burma till pours into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia. No. 9 Songhuajiang River——1927km Songhuajiang River ((simplified Chinese: 松花江,pinyin: Sōng Huā Jiāng) is the largest tributary of the Heilongjiang River of ...
The strait’s northern part, called Amur Liman, gets freshwater from the Amur River and is the site of many Russian ports like Uglegorsk, Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Lesogorsk, and Sovetskaya Gavan. Port operations are restricted by ice from mid-November to mid of May. ...
Ob River, river of central Russia. One of the greatest rivers of Asia, the Ob flows north and west across western Siberia in a twisting diagonal from its sources in the Altai Mountains to its outlet through the Gulf of Ob into the Kara Sea of the Arctic
714 feet. It is the deepest canyon on Earth. But there are many more canyons to add to the list. From the Golden Sand River Tiger Leaping Gorge, to the Yellow River Valley that nourished ancient China, to the beautiful Grand Canyon of Nujiang River, there are too many to count. ...
Geologically, the northern margin of the Himalayas follows theIndus Riverin the west and theBrahmaputra River(also called Tsang-po or Yarlung Zangbo Jiang) in the east. The last remnants of the Tethys Ocean floor can be found in what some refer to as theIndus-Tsang-po Suture Zone, where ...