Mekong Delta

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This article is about the geographical region. For the German heavy metal band, see Mekong Delta (band).

Location of the Mekong Delta region within Vietnam

Mekong River Delta from space, February 1996

Mekong Delta, February 2005.

Floating market of Cần Thơ.

The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: đồng bằng sông Cửu Long “Nine Dragon river delta”) is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries. The Mekong delta region encompasses a large portion of southeastern Vietnam of 39,000 km² [1]. The area covered by water depends on the season.

1 Vietnam War
2 Economy
3 Demographics
4 Trivia
5 External links

During the Vietnam War, the Delta region saw fighting between NLF guerrillas and units of the [[United States Navy's swift boats and PACVs. As French colonization began in Cochinchina, the first nationalist revolt, on the name of the king, started in that Mekong delta and followed by the First Indochina War fought by the French with their “Dinassaut” on waterways and copied later by the US Navy Mobile Riverine Force. http://indochine54.free.fr/cefeo/dinassau.html

A view of the “other side” in the struggle for independence and unity. http://hometown.aol.com/canedo/myhomepage/vietminh.jpg

The area is home to large numbers of rice cultivation fields and the surrounding farmlands are extremely fertile.

The inhabitants of the Mekong Delta region are largely ethnic Viet, with Khmer minority populations living primarily in the Trà Vinh, Sóc Trăng, and Muslim Chăm in Tan Chau, by An Giang provinces. There are also sizeable Chinese minority populations in the Kiên Giang and Trà Vinh provinces.