List of rivers in China

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This is a list of Chinese rivers . The list also includes rivers that only partially run in China. The Chinese names are spelled in simplified characters and in pinyin .

There are more than 50,000 rivers in China whose catchment area is larger than 100 km 2 and 79 with individual catchment areas larger than 10,000 km 2 . The total length of the Chinese rivers is more than 430,000 km. 20 rivers are over 1000 km long.

Arabian Sea

  • Indus (Yindu He 印度 河 )

Bay of Bengal

Andaman Sea

South China Sea

Taiwan Strait

East China Sea

Yellow Sea

Gulf of Bohai

Japanese sea

Arctic Ocean

  • Irtysch ( 额尔齐斯河 , É'ěrqísī Hé , officially named Ertix in China ) - Obbusen (flows into the Ob )

channels

Rivers in basins without drainage

There are more than 650 inland rivers in China.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Zheren, D., Dongya, S., Jing, Z., Jinyong, Z., & Zhengli, Z. Progress of River Restoration in China. ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Zhuo, Zheng, Yuan Baoyin, and Nicole Petit-Maire. "Paleoenvironments in China during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene optimum." Episodes-Newsmagazine of the International Union of Geological Sciences 21.3 (1998): 152-158. ( PDF )
  3. ↑ Li, Z., Yu, D., Xiong, W., Wang, D., & Tu, M. (2006). Aquatic plants diversity in arid zones of Northwest China: patterns, threats and conservation. Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation, 49-76. ( PDF )