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Bạch Đằng River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Bạch Đằng River (Vietnamese: Sông Bạch Đằng, [ʂoŋ ɓâjk̟ ɗɐ̀ŋ], also Bạch Đằng Giang, from, [ɓâjk̟ ɗɐ̀ŋ ʑaːŋ], the White Wisteria River) is a river in northern Vietnam, located near Hạ Long Bay. It flows through Yên Hưng district of Quảng Ninh province and Thủy Nguyên district of Haiphong. It serves as a means of accessing Hanoi from the Gulf of Tonkin, through the Nam Triệu Mouth, the Kinh Thầy River, the Đuống River, and then the Red River to Hanoi.

Flows through: Vietnam.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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