Mekong River
Facts
17 propertiesDesignation
- Instance of
- transboundary river, river[8]
- Heritage designation
- Ramsar site[31]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 33.709°, 94.696°, 🗺️ 10.190°, 106.750°, 🗺️ 31.132°, 97.178°
More facts +13
- Basin country
- People's Republic of China[9]
- Described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[27][28][29][30]
- Discharge
- +15000[38]
- Distributary
- Co Chien River
- Drainage basin
- Mekong River Watershed[39]
- Elevation above sea level
- +1[36]
- Length
- +4350[35]
- Mouth of the watercourse
- South China Sea[10]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[40]
- Origin of the watercourse
- Tibetan Plateau, Zha'a Qu[11][12]
- Tributary
- Tha River, Nam Ou, Tonle Sap River, Nam Ngum, Kok River, Ing River, Mun River, Ruak River, Nam Theun, Tonlé San, Banghiang River, Hueang River, Ziqu River, Ngom Qu, Ngao River, Kam river, Se Qu, Heihui River[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
- Watershed area
- +810000[37]
- VIAF cluster ID
- 316430453
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85083357
- GND ID
- 4115087-9
- OpenAlex ID
- C3018204926
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chiang Saen, Mekong River, Thailand.jpg ↗
- BBC Things ID
- 6480f95c-d2a9-469c-8ab2-2cf7dc7a8c2d
- BabelNet ID
- 00054219n
- Biblissima authority ID
- public library
- Comic Vine ID
- 4020-61759
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
- 220590
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
- 2UcKqf
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
- 394531
Show all 45 identifiers +33
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Mekong-River
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- mekong
- FAST ID
- 1239781
- Freebase ID
- /m/0j0g5
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -3721425
- GeoNames ID
- 1574716
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 1127046
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- mekong
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0041778
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Mekong
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2201515
- Interlingual Index ID
- i85764
- J9U entity ID
- 987007563007105171
- LC and MARC vocabularies ID
- geographicAreas/ag
- Lex ID
- Mekong
- NALT ID
- 105930
- NDL Authority ID
- 00629321
- NE.se ID
- mekong
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge224721
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
- XX458886
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3939418
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 215354
- Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
- メコン川
- Quora topic ID
- Mekong-River
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
- 30108-4
- Topic's main category
- Category:Mekong River
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10038708
- Vikidia article ID
- fr:Mékong
- WikiKids ID
- Mekong
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["River", "Mekong::3b95f"]
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 09373421-n
- YSO ID
- 112196
- Yale LUX ID
- place/369d1bfa-4e1a-483e-ad07-dcbc658f30d4
← Located in or next to body of water 21
← Mouth of the watercourse 17
Tributary 13
← Crosses 9
← Located in/on physical feature 9
Described by source 2
Instance of 2
← Category combines topics 2
Basin country 1
Belongs to 1
Category for the water basin 1
Continent 1
Distributary 1
Has these parts 1
Heritage designation 1
Located in this place 1
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Named after 1
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Origin of the watercourse 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains 1
← Delta of 1
← Endemic to 1
← Inflows 1
← Lowest point 1
← Main subject 1
← Origin of the watercourse 1
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Summary
Mekong River is a transboundary river[1].
Body
Works and Contributions
Things named for Mekong River include Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868[41], a research expedition[42], in Cochinchina[43].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868[41], a research expedition[42], in Cochinchina[43].
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
evidence “Deltas like the Mekong in Southeast Asia, the Nile in Egypt and the Niger in southern Nigeria are experiencing versions of this same story unfold on slower timelines;” timeslive.co.za · read source