The Yangtze River also called the Changjiang River(长江), is the third-longest river in the world, ranking after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon River in South America. It is 6397 kilometers long and is the longest and biggest river in Asia. The Yangtze River rises in Tanggula Mountain...
Some rivers begin receding in South Asia after monsoon flooding kills 451
The Orinoco in Venezuela apart from being the fourth largest river of the world is also among the longest rivers of South America. It has a drainage basin of 880,000 square km and an average discharge of 33,000m³/second. It outflows into the Atlantic. The Orinoco with its tributaries ...
International cooperation over the major rivers in South Asia took a new turn with the signing in 1996 and 1997 of five innovative water, power and economic cooperation agreements. The innovations include four elements: (i) the transfer of some previously diplomatic questions into the sphere of th...
the Geladan dong Peak. With a total length of 6,387 kilometers, Yangtze River is more than 900 kilometers longer than the Yellow River. It is the first longest river in Asia and the third in the world, just shorter than the Nile River in Africa and the Amazon River in South America...
The Lancang River originates in the northeast of Tanggula Mountain in Qinghai Province, China, flows through Tibet and Yunnan. The Lancang River is also a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia and called the Mekong River (湄公河)after it exits China. It flows through Myanmar,...
While some major rivers, including theBrahmaputra(雅鲁藏布江)in South Asia and the Yangtze in China, have larger water flows, there is concern that the increased volume comes from the melting ofglaciers2(冰河,冰川)in the Himalayas. This means that in future these rivers might decline significantl...
The roof of the world, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, cradles the sources of the longest rivers in Asia. In between the precipitous north-south ranges of the rippling Hengduan Mountains runs a mighty trio of waterways-the Nujiang in the west, the Lancang in the middle and the Jinsha in the ea...
Anti-clockwise rotation of southern Afghanistan, caused by differential compression and right-lateral shear, cut the rivers on the north, while increasingly arid conditions developed on the south as arc accretion in the Makran separated sources from the coastal rains. In Tibet and southeast Asia, ...
The Yangtze is the longestriverin Asia and runs through some of China’s most stunning landscapes, including the famous Three Gorges and the scenic countryside. Danube River, Europe: The Danube flows through ten countries in Europe, passing bypicturesquecities like Vienna, Budapest, and Prague. ...