Red River (Asia)

Red River (Asia)

The Red River (Vietnamese: Sông Hồng; Chinese: 红河; pinyin: Hóng Hé), also known as the Sông Cái - Mother River (Vietnamese), or Yuan River (Chinese), is a river that flows from southwest China through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin. According to C.Michael Hogan, the associated Red River Fault was instrumental in forming the entire South China Sea at least as early as 37 million years before present.

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