The Mekong River is one of the world’s longest rivers at 2,703 miles, longer than North America’s Missouri River (2,341 miles) and Mississippi (2,530 miles).  Among Asian rivers, it ranks seventh in length, easily surpassed by China’s Yangtze and Yellow rivers at 3,917 miles and 3,395 miles respectively.  By volume the river is dwarfed by the Amazon and Congo, but it still carries an impressive amount of water to its juncture with the South China Sea.  The river’s average annual discharge rate is 565,008 cubic feet per second, which is almost exactly the same as the Mississippi’s discharge rate of 572,070 (cfs). Continue Reading »