The Thái Bình river system is one of the two major

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in the

Red River Delta The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta () is the flat low-lying plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries merging with the Thái Bình River in Northern Vietnam. ''Hồng'' (紅) is a Sino-Vietnamese word for "red" or "crimson". T ...

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; the other one is the

Red River system The Red River system is a network of rivers or delta system surrounding the main river - Red River in North Vietnam. These branches of the system contribute to or receive water from Red River. Red River system, joining with the Thái Bình river ...

. Both split from the Red River in the

Hưng Yên province Hưng Yên (/hɨŋ˧˧:iən˧˧/) is a province in the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam. History Dynastic period The area of the province of Hưng Yên has been inhabited for millennia. Under the Ngô dynasty, it was called Dang Chau. It wa ...

. The system consists of 8 rivers flowing in northern Vietnam. This system joining with Red River system creates the Red River Delta. The part of it between Hưng Yên and the sea, in combination with the part of the Red River from

Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...

to Hưng Yên, was called the River of Tonkin by historical Dutch and English texts.

Rivers of the system

Bạch Đằng River The Bạch Đằng River (, ), also called Bạch Đằng Giang (from ), ''white wisteria river'', is a river in northern Vietnam, located near Hạ Long Bay. It flows through Yên Hưng District of Quảng Ninh province and the district Th� ...

Cầu River Cầu River () is a river of northern Vietnam. It flows through the provinces/cities of Bắc Kạn, Thái Nguyên, Bắc Giang, Hanoi, Bắc Ninh Bắc Ninh () is a city in the Northern Vietnam, northern part of Vietnam and is the capital o ...

Kinh Thầy River Kinh Thầy River is a river of Hải Dương Province in northeast Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a populati ...

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Lục Nam River The Lục Nam River (), also called Minh Đức River or Chũ River, is a tributary of Thái Bình River in Northern Vietnam. It flows for 200 kilometres through Bắc Giang Province Bắc Giang �ak˧˥:zaːŋ˧˧was a former Provinces of ...

Thái Bình River Thái Bình river (Vietnamese: Sông Thái Bình) is the name of the Thái Bình river system's main river in Northern Vietnam. This river system joins with the Red River system and brings alluvium to create Red River Delta. Thái Bình river sta ...

Thuong River Cháng () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (''Cháng''). It was listed 80th among the Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames''. "Chang" is also the Wade-Giles romanization of two Chinese surnames written Zhang in pinyin: one extre ...

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References

Geography of Vietnam Rivers of Thái Bình province {{Vietnam-river-stub