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The Yellow River [a], also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi) and a watershed of 795,000 km 2 (307,000 sq mi).
The Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve (YRDNNR) is a protected area in the city of Dongying, China, which covers wetland habitats on the shore of the Bohai Sea.These wetlands are formed through the deposition of silt by the Yellow River, forming a large and growing delta.
[14] [15] The Yellow River was diverted to a new course over swathes of farmland until the repair of the dykes in January 1947. Five million civilians lived on such inundated land until 1947. [15] Inspired by the strategic outcome, dykes elsewhere in China, especially along the Yangtze, were subsequently destroyed by Chinese and Japanese forces ...
The management of the Yellow River is a comprehensive issue involving politics, economics, culture, and political theology, and it has also been a longstanding challenge for Chinese rulers throughout history. The flooding of the Yellow River often signifies large-scale displacement and dynastic changes.
Liancheng National Nature Reserve [2] is located in Gansu Province in the Yellow River Basin. It consists of 47,930 hectares (118,400 acres), of which 14,223 ha (35,150 acres) is core area, 13,189 ha (32,590 acres) is buffer area, and the remaining 20,517 ha (50,700 acres) is experimental area mainly targeted for the protection of the spruce ecosystem, especially Picea wilsonii.
'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. Parts of the area were protected as the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve (SNNR), also called the Three Rivers Nature Reserve. The reserve consisted of ...
The second longest river in China is the Huang He (Yellow River). It rises in Tibet and travels circuitously for 5,464 kilometers through North China, it empties into the Bo Hai Gulf on the north coast of the Shandong Province. It has a catchment area of 752,000 square kilometers.
The vast plains in northern China used to be regularly flooded by the Yellow River. However, overgrazing and the expansion of agricultural land could cause this area to increase. [28] In 2009, it was estimated that over 200 high-altitude lakes in Zoigê Marsh, which provides 30% of the Yellow River's water, had dried up. [29]