The Yangtze is the most important river of China. It is the country’s principal waterway, and its basin is China’s great granary and contains nearly one-third of the national population.
Q. What best describes the Yangtze River?
The Yangtze River (or, “Changjiang” in Chinese, literally, the “long river”), is the longest river in China, running 6,300 kilometers (3915 miles). It is also the third longest river in the world. The Yangtze also carries more water than any other river in China.
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- Q. What best describes the Yangtze River?
- Q. What is special about the Yangtze River?
- Q. Where is the river Yangtze?
- Q. Is Yangtze a Brahmaputra river?
- Q. Why Brahmaputra is known as Red River?
- Q. Which river is called father of river?
- Q. Which river is called Mother of Rivers?
- Q. How often does the Yellow River flood?
- Q. What damage did the Yellow River flood?
- Q. Where was the Yellow River flood?
- Q. What caused the Yellow River flood in 1931?
Q. What is special about the Yangtze River?
The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Amazon in South America and the Nile in Africa. It has traditionally been considered a dividing point between north China and south China, although the Huai River also shares the claim. The Yangtze flows into the East China Sea.
Q. Where is the river Yangtze?
China
Q. Is Yangtze a Brahmaputra river?
These rivers include the Brahmaputra, the Yangtze, the Mekong, the Sutlej, the Indus, the Salween, and the Huang Ho, which is also known as the Yellow River. The Brahmaputra is the lifeline for communities living along its banks.
Q. Why Brahmaputra is known as Red River?
The soil of this area is rich in iron content naturally this gives the color red to the river with a high concentration of sediments of red and yellow soil.
Q. Which river is called father of river?
Indus River
| Indus Sindhu | |
|---|---|
| The course and major tributaries of the Indus river | |
| Location | |
| Country | China, India , Pakistan |
| States and Provinces | Ladakh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Tibet |
Q. Which river is called Mother of Rivers?
Mekong River
Q. How often does the Yellow River flood?
1,500 times
Q. What damage did the Yellow River flood?
The worst flood in human history occurred in 1887, when the Yellow River overran the dikes in Henan Province. That flood covered 50,000 square miles. It inundated eleven large towns and hundreds of villages. Nine hundred thousand people died, and two million were left homeless.
Q. Where was the Yellow River flood?
Central China
Q. What caused the Yellow River flood in 1931?
The Yellow, Yangtze, and Huai Rivers of China flooded in 1931, inundating almost all of central China in the worst natural disaster in the nation’s history. The floods were primarily caused by poor management of the rivers, which were overwhelmed by extreme weather in 1931.
