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The Jiang Nan subtropical evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0118) covers the mountainous divide between the lower Yangtze River and the coastal plain of South China. The region is also a climatic divide between the temperate valleys of the north and the subtropical forests of the south.
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).
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 ...
The Changhua River (Chinese: 昌化江), [4] also known as Changhua Jiang, [5] Chang River (昌江), [6] is a river located in Hainan Province of the People's Republic of China. [ 7 ] and is the second longest river in Hainan .
The geology of China (or the geological structure of the People's Republic of China) consists of three Precambrian cratons surrounded by a number of orogenic belts. The modern tectonic environment is dominated by the continued collision of India with the rest of Asia starting 40–50 million years ago.
The Sanjiangyuan (Chinese: 三江源; lit. 'Source of Three Rivers'), is an area of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, China which contains the headwaters of three great rivers of Asia: the Yellow, the Yangtze, and the Mekong.
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.
Map of the Three Gorges After arriving at Yibin ( 宜宾 ), in Sichuan Province ( 四川 ), the Yangtze River ( 长江 ) flows from Jiangjin ( 江津 ), of Chongqing Municipality ( 重庆 ), to Yichang ( 宜昌 ), of Hubei Province ( 湖北 ); and this section of the river is called Chuanjiang ( 川江 ), or "the river of Sichuan".