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Yangtze or Yangzi (English: / ˈ j æ ŋ t s i / or / ˈ j ɑː ŋ t s i / simplified Chinese: 长江; traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; lit. 'long river') is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world.
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
The Yangtze River, literally named "the Long River" in Mandarin, is considered to be the longest river in Asia. [3] [4] It is also the third longest river in the world; stretching 6,315 kilometres from the mountains of Tibet to the Eastern Sea. [4]
The Nile in Africa is officially recognized as the world’s longest river, but now a new expedition is heading to South America with the aim of exploring a tributary of the Amazon which may lead ...
Second-longest and largest river in the world, undammed as well as unbridged, does not form a delta while joining the sea due to adequate thrust of river water to overcome the sea water wave and tidal thrusts. 1 Lena River: 4,472 km (2,779 mi) 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi) 17,000 m 3 /s (600,000 cu ft/s) Arctic Ocean: Longest undammed river in ...
The majority of rivers flow west to east into the Pacific Ocean. 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.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe's third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 10,000 homes and forcing ...
This river may predate the break-up of western Gondwana as an extension of a proto-Congo river system, 200 Mya during the Jurassic. Ohio: 3~2.5 Mississippi River: Formed when the Laurentide Ice Sheet dammed the north flowing Teays River during the Pre-Illinoian glaciation. The drainage area of the Teays could no longer drain to the north, and ...