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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).
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 Changjiang Plain evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0415) covers the plain of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) from where it leaves the mountains at the Three Gorges in the west, to the mouth of the Yangtze at the East China Sea.
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".
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)
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.
Changjiang Li Autonomous County (formerly known by its Cantonese romanization name Cheongkong) is an autonomous county in Hainan, China.It is one of six counties of Hainan.
'Chang River') is a district of the city of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China. Administrative divisions. Changjiang District is divided to 2 subdistricts, 2 towns and 3 ...