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Category: Bodies of water of China by province or municipality. 6 languages.
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.
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 "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 ).
Water Aibi Lake: Xinjiang: 36 Saline Ailik Lake: Xinjiang: 50 Saline Ayding Lake: Xinjiang: 176 Dried Salt Bed Bosten Lake: Xinjiang: 1000 Fresh Chaiwopu Lake: Xinjiang: 28 Fresh Chang Lake: Hubei: 131 Fresh Chao Lake: Anhui: 775 Fresh Dabiele Lake: Qinghai: 7.4 Saline Dabusun Lake: Qinghai: 184–334 Saline Daye Lake: Hubei: 54.7 Fresh Lake ...
Total length of waterways per country in kilometers. This is a list of waterways, defined as navigable rivers, canals, estuaries, lakes, or firths.In practice, and depending on the language, the term "waterway" covers maritime or inland transport routes, as suggested by "way".
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.