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Definition of Nan River
1. Noun. A river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nan River
Literary usage of Nan River
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, General Assembly (1890)
"The first part of our trip from Nan was along the Nan river and its tributaries.
Our stay in the towns and villages passed was often only for a part of a ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"They came either from Mong-kai, or from the mouth of the Lang-moon, or Ngan-nan
river, and this only because it was vastly less laborious than the overland ..."
3. Supplementary Papers (1886)
"This branch, locally called the Nan river, is beyond question a wider and deeper
channel than that which we had been following, and should be regarded as ..."
4. Orchidaceae: Illustrations and Studies of the Family Orchidaceae by Oakes Ames (1908)
"... nan River, a branch of Fraser River, July 31,1898, W. Spreadborough (6).
CASSIAR DIST. : Lake Lindeman, near boundary of Yukon Territory, July 8, 1902, ..."
5. The Laos of North Siam by Lillian Johnson Curtis (1903)
"They had to shoot the Nan river rapids during a flood season. Of that experience
Mrs. Peoples wrote as follows:— "The morning of our last day in Nan arrived ..."
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