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River in Laos and Vietnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cả River (Laotian: Nam Khan, Vietnamese: Sông Cả) or better known as Lam River (sông Lam in Vietnamese) is a river in mainland Southeast Asia.
Its name sông Cả ("the first river") in modern-Vietnamese language is originated from Nam-khan ("the big river", Nậm-cắn) in the old-Laotian language. However, it was called usually as sông Rung ("the Krung river") by indigenous people. This word has therefore been signed in Chinese characters as sông Lam or Lam-giang ("the blue river", K'lam, Kẻ Lam of Khả-lam in ancient Annamese language).
It originates in the Loi Mountains of Laos, crossing Laos's Xiangkhouang Province, Vietnam's Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces and empties into the Gulf of Tonkin, on the North Central Coast of Vietnam, after a 512 km journey.[1] The Cả River zone is classified as 300 km by the Vietnam Geographical Survey.[2] The Bến Thủy bridge, crossing into Bến Thủy, Vinh, crosses the Cả River on its Cửa Hội estuary.
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