万象和金边
Mekong River
Chinese Lancang Jiang or Lan-Ts'ang Chiang
Longest river of Southeast Asia.
Rising in eastern Tibet,China,it flows south across the highlands of Yunnan province.It then forms part of the border between Myanmar (Burma) and Laos,as well as between Laos and Thailand.It runs through Laos and Cambodia before entering the China Sea in a delta south of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam after a course of 2,700 mi (4,350 km).Vientiane and Phnom Penh stand on its banks.Its lower course has about one-third of the combined population of Cambodia,Laos,Thailand,and Vietnam.In 1957 the UN initiated the Mekong River Development Project,an international effort to harness the river for hydroelectricity and irrigation.
东南亚最长的河流.发源于中国西藏东部,在中国境内称澜沧江,向南流经云南省高原,然后形成缅甸和老挝之间以及老挝和泰国之间的界河.流经老挝和柬埔寨后,在越南胡志明市南面的三角洲注入中国海,全长4,350千米.沿岸城市有万象和金边.老挝、柬埔寨、泰国和越南有约三分之一的人口集中在其下游地区.1957年联合国发起湄公河发展计划,希望通过国际力量开发该河,用于水力发电和灌溉.
