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| Yellow River | |
|---|---|
 The Yellow River in Sanmenxia, Henan | |
 Map of the Yellow River with approximate borders of its basin. | |
| Native name | |
| Location | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Bayan Har Mountains |
| • location | Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai |
| • coordinates | 34°29′31″N 96°20′25″E / 34.49194°N 96.34028°E |
| • elevation | 4,800 m (15,700 ft) |
| Mouth | Bohai Sea |
• location | Kenli District, Dongying, Shandong |
• coordinates | 37°45′47″N 119°09′43″E / 37.763°N 119.162°E |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Length | 5,464 km (3,395 mi) |
| Basin size | 752,546 km2 (290,560 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 2,571 m3/s (90,800 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 1,030 m3/s (36,000 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 58,000 m3/s (2,000,000 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Fen River |
| • right | Tao River, Wei River |
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| Traditional Chinese | 黃河 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 黄河 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Hwang Ho[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Yellow River (simplified Chinese: 黄河; traditional Chinese: 黃河; pinyin: Huáng Hé, Beijing Mandarin: [xu̯ɑŋ˧˥ xɤ˧˥] ⓘ) is the second-longest river in China,[2] after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system on Earth at the estimated length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi).[3] Originating at an elevation above 15,000 feet (4,600 metres)[4] in the Bayan Har Mountains, it empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization.[5][6] Its yellow sediments are carried downstream from the Loess Plateau.[7] The river experiences frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields.
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- ^ Yellow River (Huang He) Delta, China, Asia. Geol.lsu.edu (28 February 2000). Retrieved on 2013-02-04.
- ^ "Yellow River". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Huang He Valley". education.nationalgeographic.org. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
- ^ Little, Archibald John (1905). The Far East. Clarendon Press. p. 53. ISBN 9781108013871.
- ^ MOSTERN, Ruth; HORNE, RYAN M. (2021). The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History. Yale University Press. p. 58. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1vbd1d8.6. ISBN 978-0-300-23833-4. JSTOR j.ctv1vbd1d8.