Yangtze River
About Yangtze River
The Yangtze River, Yangzi River or Chang Jiang is the longest river in China and the third-longest river in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows for 6,236 kilometers (3,875 mi), including the Dam Qu River, the longest source of the Yangtze, in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea. It is the fifth-largest primary river by discharge volume in the world. Its drainage basin comprises one-fifth of the land area of China, and is home to nearly one-third of the country's population.
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The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze was first proposed in 1919 by Sun Yat-sen, first president of China, partly because the river brought insane, totally destructive floods about once a decade.
from 540: No Such Thing As The Three Gorgeous Dams · read transcript
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Coordinates: 30.6636, 117.3234