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Bassac River

The Bassac River (Khmer: ?????????????????????????????????; Tonl?? Bassac) or H???u River (Vietnamese: S??ng H???u ?????? or H???u Giang ??????) is a distributary of the Tonl?? Sap and Mekong River. The river starts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and flows southerly, crossing the border into Vietnam near Ch??u ?????c. The name Bassac comes from the Khmer prefix pa ("father" or "male") added to sak (???????????????) ("power, honor"), a Khmer word borrowed from the Sanskrit sakti (???????????????). The Bassac River is an important transportation corridor between Cambodia and Vietnam, with barges and other craft plying the waters. A city of the same name was once the west-bank capital of the Kingdom of Champasak. Sak (???????????????) can also be seen in the Khmer spelling of Champasak: ??????????????????????????????. USS Satyr (ARL-23), a recommissioned repair ship originally built for the United States Navy during...

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