yellow river

     

The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: 黃河; pinyin: Huáng Hé; sometimes simply calle 河 Hé ("The River") in ancient Chinese; Mongolian: Hatan Gol, Queen river) is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the sixth-longest in the world at 5,464 kilometers (3,398 mi). Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin has an east-west extent of 1900 km (1,180 mi) and a north-south extent of 1100 km (684 mi). Total basin area is 752,443 km² (290,520 mi²).

Trivia about yellow river

  • The Grand Canal connects the Yangtze River to this other major river
  • This colorful river emptied into the sea until 1853, when its course shifted to empty into the Gulf of Chihli
  • It's joined to the Yangtze by the Grand Canal
  • This Chinese river, Huang He, carries tons of colorful silt
  • It doesn’t have its distinct color yet when it emerges in Qinghai Province
  • Around 1766 B.C. the Shang kingdom arose along the valley of this river, also known as the Huang He
  • A 1931 flood of this river in the north completely covered an area about the size of Indiana & left 80 million homeless
  • Due to its excessive flooding, this colorful body of water is known as "China's Sorrow"

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