Mekong

[ mey-kong; Thai. ma-kohng ]

noun

1. a river whose source is in SW China, flowing SE along most of the boundary between Thailand and Laos to the South China Sea. 2,600 miles (4,200 km) long.

Mekong

/ ˌmiːˈkɒŋ /

noun

1. a river in SE Asia, rising in SW China in Qinghai province: flows southeast forming the border between Laos and Myanmar, and part of the border between Laos and Thailand, then continues south across Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea by an extensive delta, one of the greatest rice-growing areas in Asia. Length: about 4025 km (2500 miles)

Example Sentences

He had learned Vietnamese while performing alternative military service in the Mekong Delta.

From The Daily Beast

He absorbed ethnic rebels into his criminal empire, and set up encampments along the Mekong river.

From The Daily Beast

How China used drones to track and capture the notorious kingpin of the Mekong delta.

From The Daily Beast

Turse uses the example of Operation Speedy Express, the annihilation of the Mekong Delta between 1968 and 1969.

From The Daily Beast

In reality, the Thumb was an affable, bespectacled California accountant, a cousin of one of the men arrested on the Mekong.

From The Daily Beast

Never again can she stroll with her lover in the fragrant twilight on the palm-fringed banks of the Mekong.

From Project Gutenberg

The most comfortable and considerably the cheapest is by the bi-weekly steamer down the Mekong.

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Pnom-Penh, the capital of Cambodia, stands on the west bank of the mighty Mekong, one hundred and seventy miles from the sea.

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In 1896 a treaty was made between these two powers, which fixed the Mekong or Cambodia River as their dividing line.

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This region is nearly the extreme western limit of the Moso tribe which appears not to extend across the Mekong River.

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