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  1. Yangtze River: China's Lifeline and Paradox
    The Yangtze River is a mighty and majestic waterway that flows through the heart of China, connecting its past and present, culture and nature, and challenges and opportunities.
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    Yangtze River, longest river in both China and Asia and third longest river in the world, with a length of 3,915 miles (6,300 km). Its basin, extending for some 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from west to east and for more than 600 miles (1,000 km) from north to south, drains an area of 698,265 square miles (1,808,500 square km).
    Cháng Jiāng ( 长江; 長江) or " Long River " is the official name for the Yangtze in Mandarin Chinese. However, the Chinese have given different names to the upstream sections of the river up to its confluence with the Min River at Yibin, Sichuan.
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    Yangtze River starts from Jianggendiru Glacier, the southwest side of Geladandong Peak, the main peak of Tanggula Mountains, where is next to Kunlun Mountains, in the back-land of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China. After this, it flows eastwards and pours itself into the East China Sea. 3.
    In Old Chinese, the Yangtze was simply called Jiang/Kiang 江, a character of phono-semantic compound origin, combining the water radical 氵 with the homophone 工 (now pronounced gōng, but *kˤoŋ in Old Chinese ). Kong was probably a word in the Austroasiatic language of local peoples such as the Yue.
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  3. WEBThe Yangtze River or Chang Jiang (Simplified Chinese: 长江; Traditional Chinese: 長 江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, after the Nile in Africa, and the Amazon in South America.

  4. WEBMay 3, 2024 · Yangtze River, longest river in both China and Asia and third longest river in the world, with a length of 3,915 miles (6,300 km). Its basin, extending for some 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from west to east and for more than 600 miles (1,000 km) from north to south, drains an area of …

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  5. Yangtze - Wikiwand

    WEBYangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows 6,300 km (3,915 mi) in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea.

  6. WEBAug 17, 2023 · History: 3 million years. 1. Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world. Yangtze River is as long as 6,397 km (3,975 miles). It is the longest river in Asia and the third longest river in the world, just after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America.

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  7. Yangtze River - China, Floods, Navigation | Britannica

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