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The "Great River" with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子 江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire. By the Han dynasty, Jiāng had come to mean any river in Chinese, and this river was distinguished as the "Great River" 大江 (Dàjiāng).
Yangtze River Delta Economic Region [3]. The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta (YRD, Chinese: 长江三角洲 or simply 长三角), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising the Wu-speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui.
Chang Jiang or the "Long River" refers to the final 2,884 km (1,792 mi) of the Yangtze from Yibin through southeastern Sichuan, Chongqing, western Hubei, northern Hunan, eastern Hubei, northern Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu to the river's mouth in Shanghai. Chang Jiang is generally substituted by "Yangtze" in English usage.
The Da Ming Hun Yi Tu (大明混一圖/Dai Ming gurun-i uherilehe nirugan), [12] a Ming period map with much later Manchu translations of its labels, is also considered to have been based ultimately on Li Zemin's map. The Shengjiao Guangbei Tu was a world map. It contained not only China but also Africa and Europe.
The Yangtze (Chang Jiang) rises in Tibet, flows through Central China and enters the East China Sea near Shanghai. The Yangtze is 6,300 kilometers long and has a catchment area of 1.8 million square kilometers. It is the third longest river in the world, after the Amazon and the Nile. The second longest river in China is the Huang He (Yellow ...
Map of China. This is a list of islands of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Islands that are claimed by the PRC, including those under the control of the ...
Yangtze River (Chang Jiang 长江; upper reach known as Jinsha Jiang 金沙江 and Tongtian River 通天河) (For detailed list see List of tributaries of the Yangtze.) Huangpu River (黃浦江) Suzhou Creek or Wusong River (苏州河, 吴淞江) Xitiao River (西苕溪) Daxi Creek; Grand Canal (大运河) Qinhuai River. Gaoyou Lake (高邮湖)
Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu, China.It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling, and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Zhenjiang to the northwest, Wuxi to the east, and the province of Zhejiang to the south.