Red River

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Red River¹

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From their appearance, usually owing to the color of the silt in their waters.

proper noun

  1. Various rivers around the world

Red River²

proper noun

  1. A river in northern Vietnam and Yunnan, southern China. They have also identified the fault in the earth's crust along which this motion took place. It is a belt of severely altered rocks more than 600 miles long, from Tibet to the Gulf of Tonkin. The Red River, which flows from China across Vietnam into the gulf, follows this zone.

    Similar: Hong He, Yuan River, Yuan Jiang, Yuan Shui, Song Hong

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name the Red River of Yunnan in southern China and of northern Vietnam

Españolrío Rojo
中文紅河 /红河 hónghé, 元江 Yuán Jiāng
PortuguêsRio Vermelho
FrançaisFleuve Rouge
DeutschRoter Fluss
РусскийХонгха Xongxa, Красная Krasnaja
Tiếng ViệtSông Hồng

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@misc{red_river_2026,
  title = {Red River},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/red%20river},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}