HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Yangtze
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Gobi
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Huang He
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Xi’an
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Detailed explanation-1: -Yellow River, Chinese (Pinyin) Huang He or (Wade-Giles romanization) Huang Ho, also spelled Hwang Ho, English Yellow River, principal river of northern China, east-central and eastern Asia. The Yellow River is often called the cradle of Chinese civilization.
Detailed explanation-2: -Huang He. Also known as the Yellow River, the Huang He is the second largest river in China, after the Yangtze River. It is 5464km long, and gets its name from the yellow colour it turns while flowing through loess deposits where it pick up a lot of silt particles.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Yellow River originates on the Tibet-Qinghai plateau and continues through the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. Its path ends at the Bo Hai Gulf in the Yellow Sea. It is one of two main rivers in China, the other being the Yangtze River to the south.
Detailed explanation-4: -The mighty Yellow River has earned the name “China’s sorrow” for its tendency to flood, with devastating consequences, over the centuries.