WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Yellow River (Huang He), with a length of 3, 395 miles (5, 464 kilometres), is China’s second longest river-surpassed only by the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang). Its drainage basin is the third largest in China, with an area of some 290, 000 square miles (750, 000 square kilometres).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Huang He (hwahng HUH), also known as the Yellow River, is found in the north. In central China, the Chang Jiang (chang jyhang), also called Yangtze (yang•SEE), flows east to the Yellow Sea. The Huang He, whose name means “yellow river, ” deposits huge amounts of yellowish silt when it overflows its banks.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Huang He or Yellow River is the second largest river in China after the Yangtze and has a total length of 5, 464 km. The Huang He rises in northern China in the Kunlun Mountains in Qinghai Province, south of the Gobi Desert.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chang Jiang (“Long River”) is the name used in China, although it also is called Da Jiang (“Great River”) or, simply, Jiang (“[The] River”). The Yangtze is the most important river of China.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two great rivers run through China Proper: the Yellow River in the north, and the Yangtze (or Yangzi ) River to the south. In fact, most of China Proper belongs to the drainage-basins of these two rivers. Both originate to the far west in the Tibetan Plateau. The much smaller Xi River cuts through southern China.