Greater Mekong Subregion

Economic corridors of the Greater Mekong Subregion
Mekong River sunrise, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The Greater Mekong Subregion, (GMS) or just Greater Mekong, is a trans-national region of the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The region is home to more than 300 million people. It came into being with the launch of a development program in 1992 by the Asian Development Bank that brought together the six Asian countries of Cambodia, China (specifically Yunnan Province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and Vietnam.[1]

The Greater Mekong holds irreplaceable natural and cultural riches and is considered one of the world's most significant biodiversity hotspots. The region is an important food provider and the site of many large-scale construction projects with social and economic implications.[2]

  1. ^ "About the Greater Mekong Subregion". Greater Mekong Subregion. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  2. ^ "Greater Mekong". World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Retrieved 2018-10-08.