File: Defoliation agent spraying. jpg | A UH-1D helicopter from the 336th Aviation Company sprays a defoliation agent over farmland in the Mekong Delta

Khmer Krom or Southern Khmer is spoken by the indigenous Khmer population of the Mekong Delta, formerly controlled by the Khmer Empire but part of Vietnam since 1698.

Vietnam's settlement of the Mekong Delta led to its annexation of that area at the end of the 17th century.

To the southeast of this great basin is the Mekong Delta, which extends through Vietnam to the South China Sea.

To the southeast, the basin joins the Mekong Delta, which, extending into Vietnam, provides both water and land communications between the two countries.

File: Brick-kilns-mekong. jpg | Brick and roof tile making kilns on a branch of the Mekong in the Delta region of Vietnam.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.

The frontier with Cambodia, defined at the time of French annexation of the western part of the Mekong River Delta in 1867, remained essentially unchanged, according to Hanoi, until some unresolved border issues were finally settled in the 1982-85 period.

"), the coastal lowlands, and the Mekong River Delta in the south.

The Red River Delta ( also known as the Sông Hồng ), is a flat, triangular region of 15, 000 square kilometers, is smaller but more intensely developed and more densely populated than the Mekong River Delta.

It terminates in the Mekong River Delta north of Hồ Chí Minh City ( formerly Saigon ).

The narrow, flat coastal lowlands extend from south of the Red River Delta to the Mekong River basin.

The climate in the southern regions especially Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding Mekong Delta is predominantly Tropical savanna climate with high humidity and a distinct wet and dry season.

* October 8 – Vietnam War – Operation Sealords: United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.

** Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.

* January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong River Delta.

** Vietnam War: U. S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta ( 235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed ).

As the war continued, the SEALs found themselves positioned in the Rung Sat Special Zone where they were to disrupt the enemy supply and troop movements and in the Mekong Delta to fulfill riverine operations, fighting on the inland waterways.

SEALs on patrol in the Mekong Delta

** Khmer Krom, Khmer people living in the Delta and the Lower Mekong area

At this time, Vietnam was only just beginning to occupy the Mekong Delta, former territory of the Indianized kingdom of Champa which they had defeated in 1471.

Ho's cadres tried to kill him while he was traveling to visit his elder brother Thục, bishop of the Vĩnh Long diocese in the Mekong Delta.

Diệm also contended with two religious sects, the Cao Đài and Hòa Hảo, who wielded private armies in the Mekong Delta, with the Cao Đài estimated to have 25, 000 men.

The Dong falls at the southern end of the country prevent access to the sea, but cargo boats travel along the entire length of the Mekong in Laos during most of the year.

The original type of sushi, known today as nare-zushi () was first developed in Southeast Asia possibly along what is now known as the Mekong River and then spread to southern China before introduction to Japan.

This time Siam had to concede French control of territory on the west bank of the Mekong opposite Luang Prabang and around Champasak in southern Laos, as well as western Cambodia.

After helping to unify Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty, the French Navy began its heavy presence in the Mekong Delta and later colonized the southern third of Vietnam including Saigon in 1867.

Its neighbors to the east, the Cham of what is now southern Vietnam, took advantage of the situation in 1177 to launch a seaborne invasion up the Mekong River and across Tonlé Sap.

The Yellow River originates in southern part of the province, while the Yangtze and Mekong have their sources in the southwestern part.

The kingdom prospered with riverine traffic along the Mekong and over-land caravan routes to the ports of Siam, which had emerged as a bustling entrepôt of sea-bourne trade, and to southern China and other Tai mueang.

The boundary of the gulf is defined by the line from Cape Bai Bung in southern Vietnam ( just south of the mouth of the Mekong river ) to the city Kota Baru on the Malaysian coast.

In the meantime, the Khmers founded an outpost at Xay Fong near Vientiane, and Champa expanded again in southern Laos, maintaining its presence on the banks of the Mekong until 1070.

In the meantime, the Khmers founded an outpost at Xayfong near Vientiane, and Champa expanded again in southern Laos, maintaining its presence on the banks of the Mekong until 1070.

Kingdom of Funan (; ; Khmer: Nokor Phnom ), was the Chinese name of an ancient kingdom located around the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam and in southern Indochina.

in the Mekong delta of southern Vietnam.

Hòa Hảo (, Chữ Nôm: 道和好, Chinese: 和好, Hé Hǎo ) is a religious tradition, based on Buddhism, founded in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ, a native of the Mekong River Delta region of southern Vietnam.

They subjugated central and upper Laos, annexed portions of the Mekong Delta, and brought what are now western Cambodia and southern Thailand under their direct control.

It then flows east through the Khorat Plateau in southern Isan ( Buriram, Surin and Sisaket provinces ) for 466 miles ( 750 km ) until it joins the Mekong at Khong Chiam in Ubon Ratchathani.

Kiên Giang () is a province of Vietnam, located in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam.

It was still fairly common in the Mekong River delta until the 1920s but is now almost depleted, with a small remnant population breeding in Cambodia, southern Laos and possibly in Vietnam.

Also in northern Bangladesh, northern and central Myanmar, northern Laos to the Mekong River, northern Vietnam ( from about Hanoi north ), and China: Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Guangxi Zhuang, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, northern Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, southern Hebei, Shanxi, northern Shaanxi.

Kiệt was born in 1922 into a peasant family in Trung Hiệp village, Vũng Liêm district, Vĩnh Long province in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, then a part of Cochinchina in what was called French Indochina.

Orange: March to May Dark green: May to September Red: October to February Shaded region: spawning region of the southern Mekong population between Khone Falls and Kratié ( city ) | Kratie

Bạc Liêu () town is the capital of the Bac Lieu province in the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam.

Swift boats continued to operate along the Vietnamese coastal areas, but their primary area of operations soon centered upon the Mekong Delta area in the southern tip of Vietnam.