SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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longest river in East Asia.
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source of yellow-colored soil that it deposits along its banks.
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longest river in the world.
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main river of Japan.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Yangtze River, Chinese (Pinyin) Chang Jiang or (Wade-Giles romanization) Ch’ang Chiang, longest river in both China and Asia and third longest river in the world, with a length of 3, 915 miles (6, 300 km).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Yangtze River (or, “Changjiang” in Chinese, literally, the “long river"), is the longest river in China, running 6, 300 kilometers (3915 miles). It is also the third longest river in the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -It flows for 6, 300 kilometers (3, 915 mi) from the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia. The source of the Yangtze is in the Tibetan Plateau, and it flows into the East China Sea. It is also the largest river in China, where it flows through 10 provinces and has 8 main tributaries.