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The Mekong River, which rises in the northern slope of the Himalayas 

 within China, flows some 2,600 miles east and south before emptying 

 into the South China Sea in the delta area south of Saigon. The river 

 from its source to Chiang Saen (where the borders of Burma, Thai- 

 land, and Laos meet) extends about 1,200 miles; from there to the sea 

 is about another 1,400 miles. This 1,400-mile stretch of the Mekong, 

 with its tributaries, drains the 236,000 square miles of the Lower Me- 

 kong Basin, inhabited by some 30 million people. (See map.) 



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