Yangtze

The longest river of Asia, crossing China from the Tibetan plateau to the sea at Shanghai.

Specifications & Metrics

length

about 6,300 km

Core Principles & Analysis

• The Three Gorges Dam across it is the largest power station by capacity in the world.
• Its basin has been the agricultural and population heart of southern China for millennia.
• The Yangtze river dolphin, the baiji, was declared functionally extinct in 2006.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Yangtze