Yangtze
The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang (Mandarin ) is the langest river in Asie, an the third langest in the warld.
It rins for 6,418 kilometre (3,988 mi) frae the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai eastle athort soothwast, central an eastren Cheenae afore teemin intae the East Cheenae Sea at Shanghai. It is ane o the mucklemaist rivers bi discharge volume in the warld. The Yangtze drains ane-fift o the laund aurie o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (PRC) an its river basin is hame tae a third o the PRC's population.
| Yangtze River (长江) | |
| Chang Jiang | |
 Dusk on the Yangtze River | |
| Kintra | Cheenae |
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| States | Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Yalong, Min, Tuo, Jialing, Han |
| - right | Wu, Yuan, Zi, Xiang, Gan, Huangpu |
| Ceeties | Yibin, Luzhou, Chongqing, Wanzhou, Yichang, Jingzhou, Yueyang, Wuhan, Jiujiang, Anqing, Tongling, Wuhu, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Nantong, Shanghai |
| Soorce | Geladaindong Peak |
| - location | Tanggula Muntains, Qinghai |
| - elevation | 5,042 m (16,542 ft) |
| - coordinates | 33°25′44″N 91°10′57″E / 33.42889°N 91.18250°E |
| Mooth | East Cheenae Sea |
| - location | Shanghai, an Jiangsu |
| - coordinates | 31°23′37″N 121°58′59″E / 31.39361°N 121.98306°E 121°58′59″E / 31.39361°N 121.98306°E |
| Lenth | 6,300 km (3,915 mi) |
| Basin | 1,808,500 km2 (698,266 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 30,166 m3/s (1,065,302 cu ft/s) |
| - max | 110,000 m3/s (3,884,613 cu ft/s) |
| - min | 2,000 m3/s (70,629 cu ft/s) |
 The course o the Yangtze River through Cheenae | |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 長江 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 长江 | ||||||||||||||
| Leeteral meanin | The Long River | ||||||||||||||
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| Alternative Cheenese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 揚子江 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 扬子江 | ||||||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||||||
| Tibetan | འབྲི་ཆུ་ | ||||||||||||||
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