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Sekong Province

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Sekong (also sometimes Xekong, Lao ເຊກອງ) is a province of Laos, located in the south-east of the country. [1]

59 relations: Alak people, Animism, Annamite Range, Asian elephant, Asian small-clawed otter, Attapeu Province, Bamboo, Bear, Big-headed turtle, Black-crowned barwing, Black-hooded laughingthrush, Blyth's kingfisher, Bolaven Plateau, Champasak Province, Chestnut-eared laughingthrush, Coffee, Crested argus, Dak Cheung District, First Indochina War, Forest cover, Gaur, Golden-winged laughingthrush, Gymnosperm, Ho Chi Minh trail, Important Bird Area, Kaleum District, Katu people, Katuic languages, Kinabaluchloa, Kon Tum Province, Kong River, Lam Mam District, Language family, Lao alphabet, Lao Theung, Laos, List of sovereign states, Longhouse, Muntjac, Pakse, Pinus dalatensis, Primate, Provinces of Laos, Quảng Nam Province, Rhododendron, Salavan Province, Sekong, Serow, Talisman, Tha Teng District, ..., Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, Theraphan Luangthongkum, Tiger, Turtle, UTC+07:00, Veneration of the dead, Vietnam, Wat, Yellow-billed nuthatch. Expand index (9 more) »

Alak people

The Alak or Hrlak are an Austroasiatic ethnic group of southern Laos, living mainly in Salavan Province.

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Animism

Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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Annamite Range

The Annamite Range or the Annamese Mountains (Chaîne Annamitique; ພູ ຫລວງ Xai Phou Luang; Dãy Trường Sơn) is a mountain range of eastern Indochina, which extends approximately through Laos, Vietnam, and a small area in northeast Cambodia.

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Asian elephant

The Asian elephant, or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia, from India and Nepal in the west to Borneo in the south.

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Asian small-clawed otter

The Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea, syn. Amblonyx cinereus), also known as the oriental small-clawed otter or simply small-clawed otter, is a semiaquatic mammal native to South and Southeast Asia.

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Attapeu Province

Attapeu is a province of Laos, located in the south-east of the country.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bear

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.

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Big-headed turtle

The big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) is a species of turtle in the family Platysternidae from Southeast Asia and southern China.

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Black-crowned barwing

The black-crowned barwing (Actinodura sodangorum) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family.

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Black-hooded laughingthrush

The black-hooded laughingthrush (Garrulax milleti) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

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Blyth's kingfisher

Blyth's kingfisher (Alcedo hercules) is the largest kingfisher in the genus Alcedo.

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Bolaven Plateau

The Bolaven Plateau is an elevated region in southern Laos.

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Champasak Province

Champasak (or Champassak, Champasack – Lao: ຈຳປາສັກ) is a province in southwestern Laos, near the borders with Thailand and Cambodia.

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Chestnut-eared laughingthrush

The chestnut-eared laughingthrush (Garrulax konkakinhensis) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

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Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

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Crested argus

The crested argus (Rheinardia ocellata) are large and spectacular pheasant like-peafowl with dark-brown-spotted black and buff plumage, a heavy pink bill, brown irises and blue skin around the eyes.

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Dak Cheung District

Dak Cheung is a district (muang) of Sekong Province in south-eastern Laos.

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First Indochina War

The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina on 19 December 1946, and lasted until 20 July 1954.

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Forest cover

Forest cover in general refers to the relative (in percent) or absolute (in square kilometers/square miles) land area that is covered by forests or the forest canopy or open woodland.

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Gaur

The gaur (Bos gaurus), also called the Indian bison, is the largest extant bovine.

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Golden-winged laughingthrush

The golden-winged laughingthrush (Trochalopteron ngoclinhensis) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae.

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Gymnosperm

The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes.

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Ho Chi Minh trail

The Hồ Chí Minh trail (also known in Vietnam as the "Trường Sơn trail") was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Kaleum District

Kaleum is a district (muang) of Sekong Province in south-eastern Laos.

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Katu people

The Katu people (also Co Tu, Ca Tang; người Cơ Tu) are an ethnic group of about 83,600 who live in eastern Laos and central Vietnam.

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Katuic languages

The fifteen Katuic languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 1.3 million people in Southeast Asia.

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Kinabaluchloa

Kinabaluchloa is a genus of Southeast Asian bamboos in the grass family.

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Kon Tum Province

Kon Tum Province lies in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam and shares borders with Laos and Cambodia.

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Kong River

The Kong River, also known as the Xe Kong or the Se Kong (Lao: ເຊກອງ Se Kong, (Khmer:សេកុង(official) or ស្រែគង្គ(Khmerization)), Vietnamese: sông Sê Kông) is a river in Southeast Asia.

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Lam Mam District

Lam Mam is a district (muang) of Sekong Province in southeastern Laos.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Lao alphabet

Lao script or Akson Lao (Lao: ອັກສອນລາວ) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos.

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Lao Theung

The Lao Theung or Lao Thoeng (Lao: ລາວເທິງ) is one of the traditional divisions of ethnic groups living in Laos (the others being the Lao Loum and the Lao Soung).

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Laos

Laos (ລາວ,, Lāo; Laos), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; République démocratique populaire lao), commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest and Thailand to the west and southwest.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Longhouse

A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.

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Muntjac

Muntjacs, also known as barking deer and Mastreani deer, are small deer of the genus Muntiacus.

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Pakse

Pakse, or Pakxe (French: Paksé; Laotian: ປາກເຊ "mouth of the river"; ปากเซ), is the capital and most populous city of the southern Laotian province of Champasak, making it the second most populous city in Laos.

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Pinus dalatensis

Pinus dalatensis, also known as Vietnamese white pine or Dalat pine, is a species of pine endemic to Indochina.

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Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

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Provinces of Laos

Laos is divided into provinces (Lao ແຂວງ,, khoeng, qwang or khoueng) and 1 prefecture (kampheng nakhon) plus the Vientiane Capital city municipality (ນະຄອນຫຼວງ, nakhon louang, or Na Kone Luang Vientiane).

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Quảng Nam Province

Quảng Nam is a province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam.

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Rhododendron

Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.

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Salavan Province

Salavan (also Saravane, Lao: ສາລະວັນ) is a province of Laos, located in the south of the country.

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Sekong

Sekong (or Xekong; Lao ເຊກອງ) is the capital city of Sekong Province, Laos.

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Serow

The serows are six species of medium-sized goat-like or antelope-like mammals of the genus Capricornis.

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Talisman

A talisman is an object that someone believes holds magical properties that bring good luck to the possessor or protect the possessor from evil or harm.

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Tha Teng District

Tha Teng is a district (muang) of Sekong Province in south-eastern Laos.

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Thừa Thiên-Huế Province

Thừa Thiên-Huế is a province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, approximately in the centre of the country.

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Theraphan Luangthongkum

Professor Theraphan Luangthongkum (also cited variously as L-Thongkum, L. Thongkum or Thongkum in publications) is a Thai linguist, specializing in phonetics, linguistic fieldwork, lexicography and minority languages of Southeast Asia.

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Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside.

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Turtle

Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.

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UTC+07:00

UTC+07:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +07:00.

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Veneration of the dead

The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Wat

A wat (វត្ត wōat; ວັດ vat; วัด) is a type of Buddhist temple and Hindu temple in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. The word wat is borrowed from Sanskrit vāṭa (Devanāgarī: वाट), meaning "enclosure".

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Yellow-billed nuthatch

The yellow-billed nuthatch (Sitta solangiae) is a species of bird in the Sittidae family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekong_Province

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