Red River

English Etymology 1 From their appearance, usually owing to the color of the silt in their waters. Proper noun Red River Various rivers around the world Derived terms en Red River County en Red River Parish Etymology 2 en calque of French fleuve Rouge? + (Asia) Proper noun Red River en Q206850 en river in northern c/Vietnam and p/Yunnan southern c/China. en February 20, 1990 SCIENCE WATCH; How Indochina Moved w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150525201951/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/20/science/science-watch-how-indochina-moved.html 25 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/20/science/science-watch-how-indochina-moved.html 0362-4331 1645522 Section C 13 They have also identified the fault in the earth's crust along which this motion took place. It is a belt of severely altered rocks more than 600 miles long, from Tibet to the Gulf of Tonkin. The Red River, which flows from China across Vietnam into the gulf, follows this zone. en 2011 Li Tana The Tongking Gulf Through History: A Geopolitical Overview Nola Cooke; Li Tana; James A. Anderson The Tongking Gulf Through History https://archive.org/details/the-tongking-gulf-through-history-nola-cooke-tana-li-james-a.-anderson-encounter/ Philadelphia w:University of Pennsylvania Press 978-0-8122-4336-9 696092165 5 https://archive.org/details/the-tongking-gulf-through-history-nola-cooke-tana-li-james-a.-anderson-encounter/page/5/ Thanks to the Red River, the principal watercourse that disgorges into the gulf, the coastal region has long enjoyed a navigable connection to the foothills of the gulf's mountainous hinterland (modern Laos, northern Vietnam, and Yunnan) and to the peoples of the region and the valuable local products that historically flowed downriver from them to the sea. en September 11, 2024 Khanh Vu; Francesco Guarascio; Phuong Nguyen Red River floods Hanoi streets as Vietnam reels from impact of Typhoon Yagi John Mair; Miral Fahmy w:Reuters https://archive.ph/dCz7R https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/flood-waters-vietnam-threatening-inundate-hanoi-districts-2024-09-11/ September 11, 2024 Thousands of residents of Vietnam's capital living close to the swollen Red River were evacuated on Wednesday as its waters flooded streets days after Typhoon Yagi battered Northern Vietnam, killing at least 143 people.Yagi, the most powerful typhoon in Asia this year, made landfall on the northern coast of Vietnam on Saturday and moved westwards, hitting Hanoi with gales and heavy rain. The storm also hit other provinces up the Red River, the area's largest, collapsing a bridge on Monday. Synonyms en Hong He en Yuan River, en Yuan Jiang, en Yuan Shui en Song Hong Derived terms Red River giant softshell turtle Translations the Red River of Yunnan in southern China and of northern Vietnam Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 紅河 hónghé, cmn 元江 Yuán Jiāng Danish: da Finnish: fi Punainenjoki French: fr Fleuve Rouge m German: de Roter Fluss m Hungarian: hu Vörös-folyó Portuguese: pt Rio Vermelho m Russian: ru Хонгха, ru Красная f Spanish: es río Rojo m Vietnamese: vi Sông Hồng Further reading Red River pn en 1998 Red River or Song Col Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2586 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2586/ 1