Đuống River

Sông Đuống
Sông Thiên Đức
Sông
Duong River look from Phu Dong Bridge 2008.
Country Vietnam
Tỉnh, thành Hà Nội, Bắc Ninh
Source Cửa Dâu Junction
 - location Xuân Canh, Đông Anh District, Hanoi, Vietnam
 - coordinates 21°4′51″N 105°50′41″E / 21.08083°N 105.84472°E / 21.08083; 105.84472
Mouth Mỹ Lộc Junction
 - location Trung Kênh, Lương Tài District, Bắc Ninh Province, Vietnam
 - coordinates 21°3′21″N 106°18′16″E / 21.05583°N 106.30444°E / 21.05583; 106.30444Coordinates: 21°3′21″N 106°18′16″E / 21.05583°N 106.30444°E / 21.05583; 106.30444
Length 68 km (42 mi)
Discharge for Thượng Cát
 - average 880 m3/s (31,077 cu ft/s)
 - max 9,000 m3/s (317,832 cu ft/s)

The Đuống River (Vietnamese: Sông Đuống), also known as the Thiên Đức River, is a river of Vietnam. It flows for 68 kilometres (42 mi) through Bắc Ninh Province and Hanoi.[1]

The river features in the poem "On the Other Side of the Đuống River" by Hoàng Cầm.[2]

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  1. Vietnam Administrative Atlas, NXB Bản Đồ, 2004
  2. Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary ... 2002 - Page 133 "Hoàng Cầm, well known for his heartbreaking poem "On the Other Side of the Đuống River," which detailed his village's devastation during the anti-French resistance, had become the director of the National Theater Troupe in 1955. He, too ..."


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