Yangtze

Yangtze River (长江)
Chang Jiang
Dusk on the Yangtze River
Kintra	Cheenae
States	Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai
Tributaries
- left	Yalong, Min, Tuo, Jialing, Han
- right	Wu, Yuan, Zi, Xiang, Gan, Huangpu
Ceeties	Yibin, Luzhou, Chongqing, Wanzhou, Yichang, Jingzhou, Yueyang, Wuhan, Jiujiang, Anqing, Tongling, Wuhu, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Nantong, Shanghai
Soorce	Geladaindong Peak
- location	Tanggula Muntains, Qinghai
- elevation	5,042 m (16,542 ft)
- coordinates	33°25′44″N 91°10′57″E
Mooth	East Cheenae Sea
- location	Shanghai, an Jiangsu
- coordinates	31°23′37″N 121°58′59″E
Lenth	6,300 km (3,915 mi)
Basin	1,808,500 km2 (698,266 sq mi)
Discharge
- average	30,166 m3/s (1,065,302 cu ft/s)
- max	110,000 m3/s (3,884,613 cu ft/s)
- min	2,000 m3/s (70,629 cu ft/s)
The course o the Yangtze River through Cheenae

Yangtze
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	長江
Simplified Chinese	长江
Leeteral meanin	The Long River
Transcriptions Staundart Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Cháng Jiāng Wade–Giles Ch'ang Chiang IPA [ʈʂʰǎŋ tɕjáŋ] Yue: Cantonese Jyutping cheung4 gong1
Alternative Cheenese name
Traditional Chinese	揚子江
Simplified Chinese	扬子江
Transcriptions Staundart Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yángzǐ Jiāng Wade–Giles Yangtzu Chiang IPA [jǎŋtsì tɕjáŋ] Yue: Cantonese Jyutping yeung4 zi2 gong1
Tibetan name
Tibetan	འབྲི་ཆུ་
Transcriptions Wylie 'bri chu THL dri chu

The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang (Mandarin [ʈʂʰǎŋ tɕjáŋ]) is the langest river in Asie, an the third langest in the warld. It rins for 6,418 kilometre (3,988 mi) frae the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai eastle athort soothwast, central an eastren Cheenae afore teemin intae the East Cheenae Sea at Shanghai. It is ane o the mucklemaist rivers bi discharge volume in the warld. The Yangtze drains ane-fift o the laund aurie o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (PRC) an its river basin is hame tae a third o the PRC's population.