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Its longest tributary is the Nyang River. Major tributaries of Yarlung Tsangpo include Nyangchu River, Lhasa River, Nyang River, and Parlung Tsangpo. In Tibet the river flows through the South Tibet Valley, which is approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) long and 300 kilometres (190 mi) wide.
The Lhasa River is the longest of the Yarlung Tsangpo tributaries. [4] It flows through the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and is a left tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo. It is about 450 kilometres (280 mi) long. [5] The river forms where three smaller rivers converge.
The Spey is the longest stretch of river in Scotland bearing the same name throughout, though that does include Loch Insh. River Clyde: 158 kilometres (98 mi) 168.4 kilometres (104.6 mi) The river length is measured to Dumbarton Rock, the estuary to the Firth of Clyde at Ardmore Point. River Tweed: 162 kilometres (101 mi) 162 kilometres (101 mi)
Its waters drop from about 2,900 metres (9,500 ft) near Pei to about 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) at the end of the Upper Gorge where the Po Tsangpo River enters. The river continues through the Lower Gorge to the Indian border at an elevation of 660 metres (2,170 ft). The river then enters Arunachal Pradesh and eventually becomes the Brahmaputra ...
Thus the River Ure and River Ouse can be counted as one river system or as two rivers. If it is counted as one, the River Aire / River Ouse/ Humber system would come fourth in the list, with a combined length of 161 miles (259 km); and the River Trent /Humber system would top the list with their combined length of 222 miles (357 km). [ 6 ]
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
By 1904, the river had overflown the north bank leaving the northern bridgehead on an island, thus rendering the bridge functionally ineffective. [6] The ferryman mostly came from a nearby village of Chun or Junba, which is the only fishing village in Tibet. [7] [8] [9] The ferry service continued as late as 1959. [7]
The river is known by various names along its course, including the Thanlwin (named after Elaeocarpus sp., an olive-like plant that grows on its banks [10]) in Burma and the Nu Jiang (or Nu River, named after Nu people) in China. The commonly used spelling "Salween" is an anglicisation of the Burmese name dating from 19th-century British maps.