The Tiền River ( 瀧前 or 前江) is the name given to the section of the
Mekong
The Mekong or Mekong River ( , ) is a transboundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia with an estimated length of and a drainage area of , discharging of wat ...
’s mainstream in
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
.
At
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Cambodia, most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since 1865 and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its political, economic, industr ...
, the
Bassac River branches off from Mekong River. Both Mekong and the distributary Bassac then flow towards the
Cambodia–Vietnam border. After entering Vietnam, Mekong is known as the Tiền River (or Fleuve Antérieur in
French, meaning "prior river") while Bassac is known as the Hậu River (/ or , meaning "posterior river").
[Judith Ehlert ''Beautiful Floods: Environmental Knowledge and Agrarian Change in ...'' 2012 Page 19 "Coming from Cambodia and crossing the Vietnamese border at Tan Chau and Chau Doc, in the northwest of the Mekong Delta, the Mekong River splits into major branches known as the sông Tiền ('Tien River') and sông Hậu ('Hau River')."]
In Vietnam, distributaries of the Tiền River include the
Cổ Chiên River, the
Hàm Luông River, the
Ba Lai River and the
Mỹ Tho River.
References
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Mekong River
Rivers of An Giang province
Rivers of Đồng Tháp province
Rivers of Vĩnh Long province
Rivers of Tiền Giang province
Rivers of Bến Tre province
Rivers of Vietnam