WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Yangtze River (or, “Changjiang” in Chinese, literally, the “long river"), is the longest river in China, running 6, 300 kilometers (3915 miles).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Yangtze River is 3, 915 miles (6, 300 km) long. It is the longest river in both China and Asia and the third-longest river in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -For thousands of years, the river has been used for water, irrigation, sanitation, transportation, industry, boundary-marking, and war. The prosperous Yangtze Delta generates as much as 20% of China’s GDP. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world that is in use.

Detailed explanation-4: -China’s Yangtze River is the world’s third longest river. It runs for 3, 900 miles from the Tibetan Plateau to the estuary of the East China Sea near Shanghai.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Yangtze River Most of the world’s longest rivers are in Asia, and the Yangtze is the longest of them all. It’s actually pretty comparable in length to the Nile and Amazon rivers, measuring 3, 900 miles (6, 300 kilometers) long.

Detailed explanation-6: -The Yangtze River (Changjiang), over 6, 300 kilometers long, is the largest and longest river in China, and the third-longest in the world, next only to the Nile in northeast Africa and the Amazon in South America.