Yangtze

The Yangtze, Yangzi or Changjiang is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It... Wikipedia

  • Country:  China
  • Provinces:  Qinghai, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu
  • Municipalities:  Chongqing and Shanghai
  • Autonomous region:  Tibet
  • Cities:  Luzhou, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Yueyang, Wuhan, Jiujiang, Anqing, Tongling, Wuhu, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Nantong, Shanghai
  • Main source:  Tanggula Mountains, Qinghai, 5,170 m (16,961.94 ft)
  • River mouth:  Shanghai and Jiangsu
  • Basin size:  1,808,500 km² (698,265.75 sq mi)
  • Length:  6,300 km (3,914.64 mi)
  • Discharge:  Minimum rate, 2,000 m³/s (70,629.33 cu ft/s), Average rate, 30,146 m³/s (1,064,595.94 cu ft/s), Maximum rate, 110,000 m³/s (3,884,613.34 cu ft/s)
  • Discharge, (location 2):  Location, Datong hydrometric station, Anhui (Uppermost boundary of the ocean tide), Average rate, (Period: 1980–2020)905.7 km3/year 30,708 m³/s (1,084,442.79 cu ft/s) (2019–2020)
  • Discharge, (location 3):  Location, Wuhan (Hankou), Average rate, (Period: 1980–2020)711.1 km3/year
  • Discharge, (location 4):  Location, Yichang (Three Gorges Dam), Average rate, (Period: 1980–2020)428.7 km3/year
  • Tributaries:  Left, Yalong, Min, Tuo, Jialing, Han, Right, Wu, Yuan, Zi, Xiang, Gan, Huangpu
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo