Sekong River
river in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
The Sekong River (Vietnamese: Sông Sê Kông, Khmer: ទន្លេកុង), is a river in Mainland Southeast Asia and an important tributary of the Mekong river.
Course
The river originates in Huế in Central Vietnam and flows 480 kilometres (300 mi) through southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia. It joins the Tonlé San near the Stung Treng town of Cambodia, just 5 miles upstream from the confluence of the Tonlé San and the Mekong river.
Part of its course forms the international boundary between Laos and Cambodia.
“Sekong River” enters the record as river in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sekong, River and river can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2228176. The Library of Congress control number is sh2011001917. Authority coordinates are 16.046, 107.036. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sekong River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.