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Nam Khan

Nam Khan

River in Laos

The Nam Khan (Lao: ນ້ຳຄານ) is a river in Laos that is a major tributary of the river Mekong, with which it joins at Luang Prabang.[1]

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The Nam Khan river is 935 km long and the catchment area is 7490 km2 (or 7620 km2[2]); the population of the catchment is about 122,700 (1996).[1]

The confluence of Nam Khan and Mekong forms a peninsula where the downtown of Luang Prabang is located.[3]

View from Phou Si, looking over the Mekong River and Nam Khan River

References

  1. [1]
    ed. A.W.Jayawardena, K.Takeuchi, B.Machbub, ed. (1997). "7. Lao 1. Nam Khane" (PDF). CATALOGUE OF RIVERS FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Volume II. Hong Kong. ISBN 962-8014-09-9. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  2. [2]
    Liu X, Liu FM, Wang XX, Li XD, Fan YY, Cai SX, Ao TQ (2017). "Combining rainfall data from rain gauges and TRMM in hydrological modelling of Laotian data-sparse basins". 7: 1487–1496. Archived from the original on 2023-06-12. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. [3]
    Lynne M Dearborn, John C Stallmeyer (2016). Inconvenient Heritage: Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang. Routledge.

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