The Day River ( vi, Sông Đáy) is a river in Vietnam. It was formerly known as Hát River ( or ) or Gián Khẩu River (). The river is a

distributary A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributar ...

of the Red River, draining into the

Gulf of Tonkin The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China. It has a total surface area of . It is defined in the west and northwest by the northern ...

. The river has a length of 240 km and has a drainage basin of more than 7,500 km², flowing through Hanoi, and the provinces of Hòa Bình, Hà Nam,

Ninh Bình Ninh Bình () is a small city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Ninh Bình Province. Geography Ninh Bình Province is located in northern Vietnam comprising 48 square kilometres; the 2007 city population was 130,517 ...

and Nam Định.

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Rivers of Ninh Bình province Rivers of Hà Nam province Rivers of Nam Định province Rivers of Hanoi Hong River Gulf of Tonkin Rivers of Vietnam {{Vietnam-river-stub

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