Yangtze
Appearance
(Reguidit frae Yangtze River)
Yangtze River (长江) | |
Chang Jiang | |
Dusk on the Yangtze River
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Kintra | Cheenae |
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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 / 33.42889°N 91.18250°E |
Mooth | East Cheenae Sea |
- location | Shanghai, an Jiangsu |
- coordinates | 31°23′37″N 121°58′59″E / 31.39361°N 121.98306°ECoordinates: 31°23′37″N 121°58′59″E / 31.39361°N 121.98306°E |
Lenth | 6,300 km (3,915 mi) [1] |
Basin | 1,808,500 km2 (698,266 sq mi) [2] |
Discharge | |
- average | 30,166 m3/s (1,065,302 cu ft/s) [3] |
- max | 110,000 m3/s (3,884,613 cu ft/s) [4][5] |
- min | 2,000 m3/s (70,629 cu ft/s) |
The course o the Yangtze River through Cheenae
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 長江 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 长江 | ||||||||||||||
Leeteral meanin | The Long River | ||||||||||||||
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Alternative Cheenese name | |||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 揚子江 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 扬子江 | ||||||||||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||||||||||
Tibetan | འབྲི་ཆུ་ | ||||||||||||||
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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.[6]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica: Yangtze River http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110538/Yangtze-River
- ↑ Zhang Zengxin; Tao Hui; Zhang Qiang; Zhang Jinchi; Forher, Nicola; Hörmann, Georg. "Moisture budget variations in the Yangtze River Basin, China, and possible associations with large-scale circulation". Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. 24 (5): 579–589.
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(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link) - ↑ "Main Rivers". National Conditions. China.org.cn. Retrieved 27 Julie 2010.
- ↑ https://probeinternational.org/three-gorges-probe/flood-types-yangtze-river Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2011-02-01
- ↑ "Three Gorges Says Yangtze River Flow Surpasses 1998". Bloomberg Businessweek. 20 Julie 2010. Retrieved 27 Julie 2010.
- ↑ (Chinese) [1][deid airtin] Accessed 2010-09-10