Yangtze

The Yangtze River, Yangzi River or Chang Jiang is the longest river in China and the third-longest river in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula... Wikipedia

• Country:  China
• Provinces:  Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu
• Municipalities:  Chongqing, Shanghai
• Major cities:  Luzhou, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Yueyang, Changsha, 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
• Progression:  East China Sea
• River system:  Yangtze River
• Basin size:  1,808,500 km² (698,265.75 sq mi) (Yangtze with Huai: 1,949,514.8 km²)
• Length:  6,300 km (3,914.64 mi), 6,374 km (3,960.62 mi) Yangtze – Jinsha – Tongtian – Dam Qu
• Discharge:  Location, Yangtze Estuary, Average rate, (Period: 1955–2021)995.8 km3/year 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) (1980–2020), Average rate, 905.7 km3/year 30,708 m³/s (1,084,442.79 cu ft/s) (2019–2020)
• Discharge, (location 3):  Location, Wuhan (Hankou) (1980–2020), Average rate, 711.1 km3/year
• Discharge, (location 4):  Location, Yichang (Three Gorges Dam) (1980–2020), Average rate, 428.7 km3/year
• Tributaries:  Left, Yalong, Min, Tuo, Jialing, Han, Huai, Right, Wu, Yuan, Zi, Xiang, Gan, Huangpu
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo