The Lower Mekong Basin
 

 
The Lower Mekong Basin is the Cambodian, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese parts of the Mekong Basin. It has a population of some 62 mio. people and an area of 606,000 km2. (The entire Basin includes parts of Myanmar and of the Yunnan Province of China as well, and has an area of 795,000 km2).

The Basin covers 
     86 percent of the area of Cambodia;
     97 percent of the area of Laos;
     36 percent of the area of Thailand; and
     20 percent of the area of Vietnam.

Most people (about 80 percent) earn their living from farming (typically harvesting one crop per year, except in the Delta, where 2 or 3 crops can be grown). Rice is the predominant crop.