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For thousands of years, the river has been used for water, irrigation, sanitation, transportation, industry, boundary-marking, and war. The Yangtze Delta generates as much as 20% of China's GDP, and the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world that is in use.
This is a List of rivers of Asia. It includes major, notable rivers in Asia. Alphabetical order. Amu Darya - Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan - Aral Sea;
'Source of Three Rivers'), is an area of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, China which contains the headwaters of three great rivers of Asia: the Yellow, the Yangtze, and the Mekong. Parts of the area were protected as the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve (SNNR), also called the Three Rivers Nature Reserve. The reserve consisted of ...
The Amu Darya (/ ˌ ɑː m uː ˈ d ɑːr j ə / AH-moo DAR-yə), [a] (Persian: آمو دریا) also shortened to Amu and historically known as the Oxus (/ ˈ ɒ k s ə s / OK-səss), [2] [b] is a major river in Central Asia, which flows through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.
This is a list of longest rivers of Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. River
Chishui River (Chinese: 赤水河; pinyin: Chìshuǐ Hé; historically, 赤水; Chìshuǐ [1]) is a major tributary of the upper Yangtze. Its name literally means "red water river"/"red river" [ a ] because it shows reddish color in lower stream due to a large sediment concentration.
One year after the evictions, the bank loaned Lagos authorities $200 million to support the state government’s budget. The World Bank said it was “not a party to the demolition” and that it advised the Lagos government to negotiate with displaced people, leading to compensation for most of those who said they’d been harmed.
The 1935 Yangtze River Flood was a regional flood. It resulted in major floods in the Han River and Li River, the main tributaries of the middle Yangtze River. [citation needed] The survey at the mainstream of the Han River, Danjiangkou, estimated a flood peak flow of 50,000 cubic meters per second, which ranks it as the 2nd largest flood in ...