Black River
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Proper noun
- One of the longest rivers in Jamaica; it is 33.2 miles long.
- A town located at the mouth of the Black River, the parish capital of Saint Elizabeth parish, Jamaica.
- A river in Vietnam and Yunnan, China.
- 1972 July 14, Seymour M. Hersh, “Dikes in Hanoi Area Represent 2,000‐Year Effort to Tame Rivers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-24:
- Specific data on the flow of the Red River near Hanoi was impossible to obtain but last month Le Monde, the Paris newspaper, published a dispatch predicting that the flow of the Black River, a main tributary, would reach 32,500 cubic meters a second at Sontay, about 25 miles northwest of Hanoi (a cubic meter is about 35 cubic feet).
- 1996, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 2, Cultural crisis and the Thai capitalist transformation, →OCLC, page 131:
- The Black River Watershed is a tributary system of the Red River. Like the Red River, the Black River has its source in China and flows out through Vietnam.
- 2017 July 1, Colin Hinshelwood, “Cruise Vietnam’s scenic and lush Red River”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 June 2017:
- The Upper Red River veers northwards to China, but we take a sneaky left-hand turn down the Da River (Black River).
- A river in west-central Wisconsin, United States, a tributary of the Mississippi.
Synonyms
- (from Vietnamese) Sông Đà
- (from Mandarin Chinese, upper reaches) Lixian River
Derived terms
- Black River Falls (Wisconsin)
See also
Further reading
- Black River, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- “Black River, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Black River”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Black River” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Black River”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 445, column 1
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