WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It has a drainage basin of around 750, 000 square kilometers (290, 000 square miles), the third largest basin area in China. It is called the Yellow River because its waters carry silt, which give the river its yellow-brown color, and when the river overflows, it leaves a yellow residue behind.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: Huáng hé [xwǎŋ xɤ̌] ( listen)) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of 5, 464 km (3, 395 mi).

Detailed explanation-3: -Huang He means “Yellow River.” The river gets its color and its name from the extremely high volume of yellow-brown windblown silt, or loess, that enters the river in its middle reaches as it cuts through the Loess Plateau. The high silt load makes the lower reaches of the river prone to disastrous flooding.

Detailed explanation-4: -The river flows through a region in northwestern China with unusually fine and powdery soil called loess.