The Mekong River is one of the world's 10th rivers in its river length
and has great influences upon nature and societies of the Indo-china
Peninsula. The name "MEKONG" originate in Thai language, Mae Nam
Khong1). The source of the Mekong River is in Tibet mountains and is
called Dza Chu River (River of Rock). After running through very narrow
valley paralling Yangz Jiang and Salween River, the Mekong reaches to
Yung-Nan Province of China and is called Lancang Jiang (Turbulent
River). Via Golden Triangle, the crossing of China, Myanmar and Laos
boarder, the Mekong flow into Vientiane Plain. The term, Lower Mekong
means downstream segment from the point. There are some notorious rapids
for French navigation plan in colonial period before the Mekong get to
Cambodia, and the last segment is the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam, which
distributes grate influences to agriculture, especially paddy fields
there.