So Cultures – July 2019

H I S T O R Y

T H E R E G I O N B O A S T S

The lowland people, however,

form the majority of the

population, the Han Chinese of

Yunnan speak Tibeto-Burman

languages, the Lao of Laos and

the Thai of Thailand, both

speaking languages in the Tai

family, and the Vietnamese of

Vietnam and the Khmer of

Cambodia, Vietnam, and

Thailand, both speaking Mon-

Khmer languages.

THE REGION BOASTS

remarkable biodiversity; only

the vast basins of the Congo and

the Amazon can be compared to

it. The region’s fertile soil

depends on nutrient-rich

sediment that the Mekong

carries downriver, mainly

during the rainy season from

June to October.

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Members of the Mekong
Expedition of 1866-1868,
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