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  2. Yangtze - Wikipedia

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    The "Great River" with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子 江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire. By the Han dynasty, Jiāng had come to mean any river in Chinese, and this river was distinguished as the "Great River" 大江 (Dàjiāng).

  3. List of rivers of China - Wikipedia

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    Yangtze River (Chang Jiang 长江; upper reach known as Jinsha Jiang 金沙江 and Tongtian River 通天河) (For detailed list see List of tributaries of the Yangtze.) Huangpu River (黃浦江) Suzhou Creek or Wusong River (苏州河, 吴淞江) Xitiao River (西苕溪) Daxi Creek; Grand Canal (大运河) Qinhuai River. Gaoyou Lake (高邮湖)

  4. Geography of China - Wikipedia

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    The Yangtze (Chang Jiang) rises in Tibet, flows through Central China and enters the East China Sea near Shanghai. The Yangtze is 6,300 kilometers long and has a catchment area of 1.8 million square kilometers. It is the third longest river in the world, after the Amazon and the Nile. The second longest river in China is the Huang He (Yellow ...

  5. Yangtze Delta - Wikipedia

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    Yangtze River Delta Economic Region [3]. The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta (YRD, Chinese: 长江三角洲 or simply 长三角), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising the Wu-speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui.

  6. Bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River - Wikipedia

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    Chang Jiang or the "Long River" refers to the final 2,884 km (1,792 mi) of the Yangtze from Yibin through southeastern Sichuan, Chongqing, western Hubei, northern Hunan, eastern Hubei, northern Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu to the river's mouth in Shanghai. Chang Jiang is generally substituted by "Yangtze" in English usage.

  7. Changjiang Plain evergreen forests - Wikipedia

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    The Changjiang Plain evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0415) covers the plain of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) from where it leaves the mountains at the Three Gorges in the west, to the mouth of the Yangtze at the East China Sea. This plain is one of the most densely populated areas on Earth, and most of the original oak and conifer ...

  8. Changhua River - Wikipedia

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    The Changhua River (Chinese: 昌化江), [4] also known as Changhua Jiang, [5] Chang River (昌江), [6] is a river located in Hainan Province of the People's Republic of China. [7] and is the second longest river in Hainan.

  9. Tuo River - Wikipedia

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    The Tuo River (Chinese: 沱江; pinyin: Tuó Jiāng) is 655-kilometer (407 mi)-long river in Sichuan province of southern China. The Tuo River is one of the major tributaries of the upper Yangtze River ( Chang Jiang ) .