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China's surface water resources include 2598.44 cubic kilometers and groundwater resources amounted to 792.44 cubic kilometers as of 2022. As pumping water draws water from nearby rivers, the total available resource is less than the sum of surface and groundwater, and this amounted to 2708.81 cubic kilometers. [3]
Bodies of water of China by province or municipality (33 C) + Bodies of water of Hong Kong (5 C, 2 P) Bodies of water of Macau (3 C, 1 P) B. Bays of China (4 C, 13 P) C.
The Four Seas (Chinese: 四海; pinyin: Sìhǎi) were four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China. There is a sea for each for the four cardinal directions. The West Sea is Qinghai Lake, the East Sea is the East China Sea, the North Sea is Lake Baikal, and the South Sea is the South China Sea. [1]
Rivers that flow through China are as follows. The list is organized according to the body of water into which each river empties, beginning with the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast, moving clockwise on a map and ending with the Arctic Ocean .
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China.China names the body of water along its eastern coast as "East Sea" (Dōng Hǎi, simplified Chinese: 东海; traditional Chinese: 東海) due to direction, the name of "East China Sea" is otherwise designated as a formal name by International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and used ...
Category: Bodies of water of China by province or municipality. 6 languages. ... Bodies of water of Zhejiang (2 C, 1 P) This page was ...
The tallest dam in China is the Jinping-I Dam at 305 m (1,001 ft), an arch dam, which is also the tallest dam in the world. The largest reservoir is created by the Three Gorges Dam, which stores 39.3 billion m 3 (31,900,000 acre feet) of water and has a surface area of 1,045 km 2 (403 sq mi). Three Gorges is also the world's largest power station.
The Songtao Reservoir (Chinese: 松涛水库; pinyin: Sōngtāo Shuǐkù), also known as the Songtao Reservoir Irrigation Area, is the largest body of water in Hainan, and the second largest reservoir [1] in China.