WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Yangtze River rises in the mountains of Qinghai province of China, on the Tibetan plateau, and flows 6, 300km to reach the East China Sea at Shanghai.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three Gorges Dam, dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in Hubei province, China. When construction of the dam officially began in 1994, it was the largest engineering project in China. At the time of its completion in 2006, it was the largest dam structure in the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Where does the Yangtze River begin and end? The Yangtze river begins in the Tibetan mountains at Mount Tanggula and courses the length of China from west to east. It ends at the East China Sea, near the city of Shanghai.