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* Liao (辽河)
** Taizi River (太子河)
** Hun River (浑河)
** Liu River (柳河)
**Dongliao River(东辽河)
** Xiliao River (西辽河)
*** Xar Moron River (西拉木伦河)
* Daling River (大凌河)
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* Yalu (鸭绿江) - 
* Northern Jiangsu Irrigation Channel
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* Han (韩江)
** Mei (梅江)
*** Ning (宁江)
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* Ulungur Lake (乌伦古湖)
** Ulungur River (乌伦古河)
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* Ejin River
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Table of rivers in China
with Chinese names and useful data (dead link 01:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)) {{Asia topic, List of rivers of *
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of ...
s that flow through China
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is organized according to the body of water into which each river empties, beginning with the Sea of Okhotsk
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in the northeast, moving clockwise on a map and ending with the Arctic Ocean
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.
Sea of Okhotsk
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* Heilong River
The Amur (russian: река́ Аму́р, ), or Heilong Jiang (, "Black Dragon River", ), is the world's tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China ( Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long, ...
(黑龙江) (Amur River)
** Ussuri River (乌苏里江)
*** Muling River (穆棱河)
*** Songacha River (松阿察河)
** Songhua River
The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, russian: Сунгари ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from the Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea bo ...
(松花江)
***Ashi River
The Ashi River is a right tributary of the Songhua in eastern Manchuria,. in Harbin's Acheng District in the People's Republic of China.
Name
The river has borne the name "Ashi" since the Qing (17th–20th century). Before that, it was known as t ...
(阿什河)
*** Hulan River (呼兰河)
*** Second Songhua River
The Second Songhua River is a tributary of the Songhua River in Jilin Province, China
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(第二松花江)
*** Woken River Woken River ( zh, 倭肯河), is a river in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was for ...
(倭肯河)
*** Mudan River (牡丹江)
*** Nen River
The Nen River or Nenjiang (), or Nonni () is a river in Northeast China. The Nen River flows through the northern part of Heilongjiang Province and the northeastern section of Inner Mongolia, some parts of the river forming the border between ...
(嫩江)
****Gan River (Inner Mongolia)
Gan River or Gan He is a tributary of the Nen River in Inner Mongolia, China. It flows 446 km from the east flank of the Greater Khingan Range into the Nen River at Nenjiang, through the Morin Dawa Daur and the Oroqin Autonomous Banner of ...
(甘河)
*** Huifa River (辉发河)
** Argun Argun may refer to:
* Argun (surname)
* Argun, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
*Argun Urban Okrug, a municipal formation which the town of republic significance of Argun in the Chechen Republic, Russia is incorporated as
* Argun, ...
(额尔古纳河)
*** Hailar River (海拉尔河)
*** Hulun Lake(呼伦湖)
****Kherlen River
Kherlen River (also known as Kern or Kerülen; ; ) is a 1,254 km river in Mongolia and China.
Course
The river originates in the south slopes of the Khentii mountains, near the Burkhan Khaldun mountain in the Khan Khentii Strictly Prote ...
(克鲁伦河)
**** Buir Lake(贝尔湖)(mostly in Mongolia)
Sea of Japan
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* Suifen River (绥芬河) / Razdolnaya River (Russia)
* Tumen River
The Tumen River, also known as the Tuman River or Duman River (), is a long river that serves as part of the boundary between China, North Korea and Russia, rising on the slopes of Mount Paektu and flowing into the Sea of Japan. The river ha ...
(图们江)
** Hunchun River (珲春河)
Bohai Sea
The Bohai Sea () is a marginal sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects to the east via the Bohai Strait. It has a mean depth of ...
* Anzi River (鞍子河)
* Fuzhou River (复州河)
* Daliao River (大辽河)
* Liao (辽河)
** Taizi River (太子河)
** Hun River (浑河)
** Liu River (柳河)
**Dongliao River(东辽河)
** Xiliao River (西辽河)
*** Xar Moron River (西拉木伦河)
* Daling River (大凌河)
* Yantai River
Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the ...
(烟台河)
* Liugu River (六股河)
* Shi River (石河)
* Gou River (狗河)
* Dashi River (大石河)
* Jiujiang River (九江河)
* Dai River (戴河)
* Yang River (洋河)
* Luan (滦河)
* Hai (海河)
** Chaobai River(潮白河)
***Chao River
***Bai River
** Wei
Wei or WEI may refer to:
States
* Wey (state) (衛, 1040–209 BC), Wei in pinyin, but spelled Wey to distinguish from the bigger Wei of the Warring States
* Wei (state) (魏, 403–225 BC), one of the seven major states of the Warring States per ...
(潍河)
** Zhang (漳河)
** Yongding (永定河)
*** Sanggan River
The Sanggan River or Sanggan He (), also known in English as Sangkan River, is a river in northern China. It runs 506 kilometers and has a drainage area of 23,900 squared kilometers. In addition to its significance in hydrology, it is culturally ...
(桑干河)
*** Yang He (洋河)
** Daqing River (大清河)
*** Juma River (拒马河)
** Wei
Wei or WEI may refer to:
States
* Wey (state) (衛, 1040–209 BC), Wei in pinyin, but spelled Wey to distinguish from the bigger Wei of the Warring States
* Wei (state) (魏, 403–225 BC), one of the seven major states of the Warring States per ...
(卫河)
*Tuhai River
* Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Ha ...
(Huang He) (黃河)
** Yufu River(玉符河)
** Beidasha River(北大沙河)
** Nandasha River(南大沙河)
**Dawen River
Dawen River () or River Dawenhe is a river in Shandong Province, China.
The main branch of the river originates from Yiyuan, flows through Xintai, Laiwu, and merges with Chaiwen River at Dawenkou (, it literally translates into river mouth of ...
(大汶河)
*** Liuchang River(柳长河 or 流长河)
***Yuejin River(跃进河)
*** Hui River(汇河)
****Jinxian River(金线河)
**** Kangwang River(康王河)
***Wu River(五河)
***Beiquan River(北泉河)
***Cao River(漕河)
***Miaojia River(苗家河)
*** Chaiwen River(柴汶河)
****Yucun River(禹村河)
****Guangming River(光明河)
****Yangliu River(羊流河)
****Xizhou River(西周河)
****Pingyang River(平阳河)
****Weishui River(渭水河)
***Panwen River(泮汶河)
***Zhitian River(芝田河)
***Tao River(陶河)
*** Yingwen River(瀛汶河)
**** Shiwen River(石汶河)
*** Fangxia River(方下河)
***Lianhua River(莲花河)
***Lixin River(里辛河)
** Jindi River(金堤河)
*** Huangzhuang River(黄庄河)
** Luo River (Henan) (洛河(南))
** Yi River(伊河)
** Qin River (沁河)
**Wei
Wei or WEI may refer to:
States
* Wey (state) (衛, 1040–209 BC), Wei in pinyin, but spelled Wey to distinguish from the bigger Wei of the Warring States
* Wei (state) (魏, 403–225 BC), one of the seven major states of the Warring States per ...
(渭河)
*** Jing (泾河)
*** Luo River (Shaanxi) (洛河(北))
**Fen
A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetlands along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires ...
(汾河)
**Yan River
The Yan River () is a river in Shaanxi, China. The river flows from its source, the Xingzi River () in Jingbian County, in the prefecture-level city Yulin, and then flows through neighboring Yan'an, finally flowing into the larger Yellow River i ...
(延河)
** Wuding River (无定河/無定河)
**Kuye River
Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...
(窟野河)
**Dahei River
Dahei Mountain () is located in Jinzhou District, Dalian, Liaoning province, China. Its peak is 663 metres above sea level. It belongs to the Qianshan Mountains, named after Qian Mountain in Anshan, that extends themselves from the Changbai Moun ...
(大黑河)
** Qingshui River (清水河)
** Zuli River (祖厉河/祖厲河)
** Tao River (洮河)
** Daxia River (大夏河)
** Star River (湟水)
** White River (白河)
* Xiaoqing (小清河, formerly known as 济河)
** Zihe River (淄河)
** (Xin)Tahe River
*** Yanghe River (阳河)
** Zhangseng River
*** Mihe River
Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea. It is one of four seas named after common colour ter ...
* Yalu (鸭绿江) - Korea Bay
The Korea Bay, sometimes the West Korea Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South ...
* Dayang River (大洋河) - Korea Bay
The Korea Bay, sometimes the West Korea Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South ...
* Huli River (湖里河) - Korea Bay
The Korea Bay, sometimes the West Korea Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South ...
* Yingna River (英那河) - Korea Bay
The Korea Bay, sometimes the West Korea Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South ...
* Zhuang River Zhuang may refer to:
*Zhuang people (or Bouxcuengh people), ethnic group in China
* Zhuang languages
*Zhuang logogram
*Zhuang Zhou, ancient Chinese philosopher
*Zhuang (surname)
Zhuang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in ...
(庄河) - Korea Bay
The Korea Bay, sometimes the West Korea Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South ...
* Xiaosi River (小寺河) - Korea Bay
The Korea Bay, sometimes the West Korea Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South ...
* Jiao (胶河)
* Yishui River (沂河)
** Shu (沭河)
** Si (泗河)
* Northern Jiangsu Irrigation Channel
**Hongze Lake
Hongze Lake or Lake Hungtse () is the fourth largest freshwater lake in China, in Jiangsu Province, China and is encompassed by the prefecture-level cities Suqian ( Sihong County and Siyang County) and Huai'an (Xuyi County and Hongze County).
...
(洪泽湖)
*** Huai (淮河)
**** Hui River (浍河)
**** Guo River (涡河)
**** Ying River (颍河) - also known as Shaying River (沙颖)
**** Xiaorun River (小润河)
**** Gu River (谷河)
**** Shiguan (史灌河)
*****Guan River (灌河)
*****Hong River
The Red River, also known as the Hong River (; vi, Sông Hồng; Chữ Nôm: 瀧紅; Chữ Hán: 紅河), the ' and ' (lit. "Mother River") in Vietnamese, and the (, ' Nguyên Giang) in Chinese, is a -long river that flows fro ...
(洪河)
****Huang River (潢河)
****Lü River (闾河)
**** Ming River (明河)
****You River (游河)
****Yue River
The Yue River, also known by its Chinese name Yuehe, is a river near Ankang in Shaanxi Province, China. The placer deposits along its banks gave the area of Ankang its former name Jin ("Gold") Prefecture. The area's gold deposits are still ex ...
, Shaanxi
East China Sea
The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated ...
* Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...
(Chang Jiang 长江; upper reach known as Jinsha Jiang 金沙江 and Tongtian River 通天河)
**Huangpu River
The Huangpu (), formerly romanized as Whangpoo, is a river flowing north through Shanghai. The Bund and Lujiazui are located along the Huangpu River.
The Huangpu is the biggest river in central Shanghai, with the Suzhou Creek being its maj ...
(黃浦江)
*** Suzhou Creek or Wusong River (苏州河, 吴淞江)
**Xitiao River
The Xitiao River or West Tiao River () is located in Zhejiang Province, China. It flows through Huzhou before entering Lake Tai
Taihu (), also known as Lake Tai or Lake Taihu, is a lake in the Yangtze Delta and one of the largest freshwater ...
(西苕溪)
***Daxi Creek
The Daxi Creek () is a tributary of the Xitiao River in Anji County of Zhejiang Province, China
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** Grand Canal (大运河)
** Qinhuai River
*** Gaoyou Lake (高邮湖)
****Sanhe River (三河)
*****Hongze Lake
Hongze Lake or Lake Hungtse () is the fourth largest freshwater lake in China, in Jiangsu Province, China and is encompassed by the prefecture-level cities Suqian ( Sihong County and Siyang County) and Huai'an (Xuyi County and Hongze County).
...
****** Huai River
**Guxi River (姑溪河)
*** Shijiu Lake (石臼湖)
**Yuxi River (裕溪河)
*** Lake Chao
***Nanfei River(南淝河)
** Qingyi River (青弋江)
***Jingshan River (荆山河)
***Daoni River (倒逆河)
***Zhaxi River (渣溪河)
***Machuan River (麻川河)
***Taiping Lake (太平湖)
****Sanxikou River (三溪口)
****Qingxi River (清溪河)
****Shuxi River (舒溪河)
** Poyang Lake
Poyang Lake (, Gan: Po-yong U), located in Jiujiang, is the largest freshwater lake in China.
The lake is fed by the Gan, Xin, and Xiu rivers, which connect to the Yangtze through a channel.
The area of Poyang Lake fluctuates dramatically ...
*** Gan River (Jiangxi)
The Gan River (, Gan: Kōm-kong) runs north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan.
Two similarly sized ...
(赣江)
**** Zhang (章江)
**** Gongshui (貢水)
***** Mei (梅河)
***** Xiang (湘水)
*** Fuhe (抚河)
*** Xin (信江)
** Fushui (富水)
** She River (灄水)
** Han River (汉江 or 汉水)
*** Chi (池水)
*** Muma (牧马河)
*** Du River
** Lake Dongting
*** Miluo River (汨罗江)
*** Xiang (湘江)
**** Xiaoshui (瀟水)
**** Zhengshui (氶水)
*** Zijiang (Zi) (资江)
*** Yuanjiang (Yuan) (沅江)
***Lishui
Lishui (; Lishuinese: ''li⁶ syu³'' ) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Quzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou to the north, Wenzhou to the southeast, and the province of Fujian to ...
(Li) (澧水)
**** Loushui River (溇水)
**Qing River
The Qing River () is a right (southern) tributary of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in Hubei province of south-central China.,
Geography
Course
The Qing River Headwaters originate at Tenglong Cave (Teng Long Dong) near Lichuan City, in Hub ...
(清江)
**Huangbo River
Huangbai River (, ''Huangbai He'') is a river in China's Hubei Province, a left tributary of the Yangtze River. The Huangbai is located entirely within the prefecture-level city of Yichang. It flows in a southern direction through Yichang's Yiling ...
(黄柏河)
**Shennong Stream
Shennong Stream () is a left tributary of the Yangtze River, located in the Hubei Province of central China. Fed by tributaries some of which come from the Shennongjia Forestry District, the stream flows south, falling into the Yangtze opposite t ...
(神农溪)
** Daning River(大宁河)
** Modao Creek (磨刀溪)
** Jialing (嘉陵江)
*** Fujiang (涪江)
*** Qujiang (渠江)
*** Baishui (白水)
*** Bailong (白龙江)
*** Liuchong River (Jialing)
** Longxi River (龙溪河)
** Huaxi River (花溪河)
** Qi River (綦江)
** Sunxi River (笋溪河)
**Wu River (Yangtze River tributary)
The Wu River () is the largest southern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nearly its entire length of runs within the isolated, mountainous and ethnically diverse province of Guizhou. The river takes drainage from a watershed.
The river flows ...
(乌江)
***Sancha River
The Wu River () is the largest southern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nearly its entire length of runs within the isolated, mountainous and ethnically diverse province of Guizhou. The river takes drainage from a watershed.
The river flows th ...
*** Liuchong River
***Qingshuihe River
The Qingshui River is a tributary of the Wu River in Guizhou Province, China
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** Tuo River
The Tuo River (; pinyin: Tuó Jiāng) is -long river in Sichuan province of southern China.
The Tuo River is one of the major tributaries of the upper Yangtze River (''Chang Jiang'').
Geography
The river originates at the northwest edge of Sich ...
(沱江)
** Chishui River
Chishui River (; historically, Huainanzi"Lecture on Terrains"quote: "何謂六水？曰河水、赤水、遼水、黑水、江水、淮水。") is a major tributary of the upper Yangtze. Its name literally means "red water river"/"red river" bec ...
(赤水河)
** Min (Sichuan) (岷江)
*** Dadu River (Sichuan) (大渡河)
**** Qingyi Jiang (青衣江)
**** Nanya River
*** Caopo River
The Caopo River (Chinese: ) is a tributary of the Min River (Sichuan), Min River in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China. It is interrupted by the Shapai Dam.
References
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** Yalong River ()
*** Muli River
** Pudu River
The Pudu River () is a major river in Yunnan Province in southwest China.
The source of Pudu River is located in Songming County; the headwater stream is called Muyang River (). The river runs southwards through Kunming and then it is called the ...
** Shuoduogang River (硕多岗河)
* Qiantang River
The Qiantang River, formerly known as the Hangchow River and alternatively romanised as the Tsientang River, is a river in East China. An important commercial artery, it runs for through Zhejiang, passing through the provincial capital Hangz ...
(钱塘江) / Xin'an River (新安江)
**Heng River (横江)
***Longchuan River (龙川)
***Fengxi River (丰溪河)
* Cao'e River
The Cao'e River () is one of the largest rivers in Zhejiang Province of East China, named after Cao E, a Han dynasty girl venerated for her filial piety. Its main source is in Pan'an County in the Dapan Mountains, and the river empties into the ...
(曹娥江)
* Yong River (甬江)
* Jiao River (椒江)
* Ou River (Zhejiang)
The Ou River () or Oujiang is the second-largest river in the Zhejiang province of eastern China. The river flows before finally reaching the city of Wenzhou and emptying into the East China Sea, into which it discharges of water annually. Sh ...
(瓯江)
* Mulan River (木蘭溪畔)
** Xikou River
** Dajixi River
* Ao River (敖江)
Taiwan Strait
The Taiwan Strait is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and continental Asia. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide.
The Taiwan Strait is itself a ...
* Min (Fujian) (闽江)
* Long (Fujian) (龙江)
* Quanzhou Bay
Quanzhou, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metropolitan region, with an area of and a populat ...
:
** Luo River (Fujian) (洛江)
** Jin River (Fujian) (晋江)
* Jiulong River (九龙江)
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Ph ...
* Han (韩江)
** Mei (梅江)
*** Ning (宁江)
**Ting
Ting may refer to:
Politics and government
* Thing (assembly) or ting, a historical Scandinavian governing assembly
* Ting (administrative unit) (亭), an administrative unit in China during the Qin and Han Dynasties
* Ting (廳,厅), an administ ...
(汀江)
** Dajing (大靖河)
* Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) (珠江)
** Dongjiang (Dong) (东江)
** Liuxihe River
** Beijiang (Bei) (北江)
** Xinfeng River
** Xijiang (Xi) (西江)
*** Guijiang (Gui) (桂江)
**** Lijiang (Li) (漓江)
*** Xunjiang (Xun) (浔江)
**** Qian (黔江)
*****Liu River
The Liu River (, pinyin: Liǔ Jiāng, literally: ''Willow River'') is a tributary within the Pearl River system in Guangxi, China. It is formed by the confluence of the Rong and Long rivers in Fengshan. It flows south through Liuzhou and then ...
(柳江)
****** Rong River (融江
******Long River (Guangxi)
The Long River ( Chinese: 龙江, pinyin: Lóng Jiāng, literally: ''Dragon River'') is a river system in northern Guangxi Province, China. It is a part of the larger Pearl River system by way of the Liu, Qian, Xun, and Xi Rivers. Its true ...
龙江)
***** Hongshui (Red River) (红水河)
****** Beipan (北盘江)
****** Nanpan (南盘江)
*******Qu River
Qu River () is a river of in China's Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality. It is a left tributary of the Jialing River, which in its turn is a left tributary of the Yangtze; it is thus part of the East China Sea
The East China Sea is ...
(曲江)
******** Lian River (Qu River) (练江)
**** Yujiang (Yu) (鬱江)
***** Yongjiang (Yong) (邕江)
****** Zuojiang (Zuo) (左江)
****** Youjiang (You) (右江)
* Beilun River (北仑河)
* Yuan River (元江) / (Red River)
** Nanwen River (南温河) / Lô River
The Lô River ( vi, Sông Lô) is a major river of Vietnam. It flows through Hà Giang Province, Tuyên Quang Province and Phú Thọ Province for 470 kilometres and has a basin area of 39,000 km² and originates in Yunnan
Yunnan ...
**Lixian River
The Black River, (, from the Tai language ''Da'' meaning "dark-brown") also known upstream as the Lixian River in China, is a river located in China and northwestern Vietnam.
Course
Its source is in Yunnan province of China. From China, the ...
(李仙江) / (Black River)
* Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
** Lancang River (澜沧江) (Mekong)
*Nanju River (南桔河)
*Nanla River (南腊河)
*Luosuo River (罗梭江)
From
Hainan Island
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* Nandu River
The Nandu River () is the longest river in Hainan Province, China. Its tributary is the Xinwu River. The river discharges into the Nandu River estuary at Haikou city, and then into Qiongzhou Strait.
The river is 314 km long, with a discharg ...
(南渡江)
**Haidian River
The Haidian River () runs through Haikou City, separating the main part of and its northern part Haidian Island, in Hainan province. Its tributary is the Nandu River.
There are three bridges that cross the river:
*Haikou Century Bridge near the ...
* Wanquan River
The Wanquan River () is the third longest river in Hainan Province, China, and is 162 km long. It rises in the Wuzhi Mountain, and flows generally northeast turbulently in a narrow route through mountainous regions. About half way downstream ...
(万泉河)
Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated fro ...
* Nu River
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(怒江) / (Salween River)
** Wanma River (万马河)
** Hongyang River (硔养河)
** Mengboluo River (勐波罗河)
** Supa River
Supa may refer to: Geography
* Supa Dam, Western Ghats, Karnataka, India
* Joida, new settlement for the people from the defunct town Supa. Supa town was immersed due to the construction of Supa Dam
* Supa, Parner
Supa or Supe is a village ...
(苏帕河)
** Shidian River (施甸河)
** Luomingba River (罗明坝河)
* ''Irrawaddy River
The Irrawaddy River ( Ayeyarwady River; , , from Indic ''revatī'', meaning "abounding in riches") is a river that flows from north to south through Myanmar (Burma). It is the country's largest river and most important commercial waterway. Orig ...
(Myanmar)''
** Daying River (大盈江) / (Taping River)
** Longchuan River (龙川江) / (Shweli River)
**'' N'Mai River (Myanmar)''
*** Dulong River (独龙江)
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line bet ...
* ''Ganges River
The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...
(India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
) / Padma River
The Padma ( bn, পদ্মা ''Pôdma'') is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for to its confluence with the Meghna River near the Bay of Bengal. The city of Rajshahi is sit ...
(Bangladesh
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)''
** ''Meghna River
The Meghna River ( bn, মেঘনা নদী) is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. A part of the Surma-Meghna River System, ...
(Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
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** Yarlung Tsangpo River
The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo () is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is the longest river of Tibet and the fifth longest in China. The upper section is also called D ...
( ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་, 雅鲁藏布江)
***Subansiri River
The Subansiri River; is a trans- Himalayan river and a tributary of the Brahmaputra River that flows through Tibet's Lhünzê County, Shannan Prefecture and the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The Subansiri is long, with a dra ...
(西巴霞曲)
*** Lhasa River
*** Parlung Tsangpo (帕隆藏布)
***Yigong Tsangpo(易贡藏布)
*** Zayuqu (察隅曲) / Lohit River
The Lohit River, also known as the Zayul Chu by the Tibetans and Tellu by the Mishmis, is a river in China and India, which joins the Brahmaputra River in the state of Assam. It is formed in the Zayul County of the Tibet Autonomous Region, ...
*** Nyang River ( ཉང་ཆུ, 尼洋曲)
***'' Manas River (Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
/ India
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*** Lhobrak Chhu / Kuri Chhu
The Kuri Chhu, also known as the Lhozhag Xung Qu (tib. lho brag gzhung chu) or Norbu Lag Qu (tib. nor bu lag chu), is a major river of eastern Bhutan, that has formed a scenic valley with high peaks and steep hills. Kuri Chhu is a tributary of th ...
**''Kosi River
The Kosi or Koshi ( ne, कोशी, , hi, कोसी, ) is a transboundary river which flows through China, Nepal and India. It drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal. From a major conflue ...
(Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...
/ India
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)
*** Bum Chu (བུམ་ཆུ, 澎曲 / 阿龙河) / Arun River
***Matsang Tsangpo
Bhote Koshi in Nepal and Poiqu in Tibet, both names roughly mean "Tibetan river," is the name given to the upper course (main tributary) of the Sun Kosi river. It is part of the Koshi River system in Nepal.Shrestha, A. B., Eriksson, M., Mool, ...
(མ་གཙང་གཙང་པོ།, 麻章藏布) / Bhotekoshi River
*** Rongshar Tsangpo (波特科西) / Tamakoshi River
** Ghaghara River (格尔纳利河)
Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channe ...
* Sênggê Zangbo (སེང་གེ།་གཙང་པོ, 狮泉河) / Indus River
The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmi ...
**''Panjnad River (Pakistan)''
***Langqên Zangbo
The Sutlej or Satluj River () is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan. The Sutlej River is also known as ''Satadru''. It is the easternmost tributary of the Ind ...
(གླང་ཆེན་གཙང་པོ, 象泉河) / Sutlej River
The Sutlej or Satluj River () is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan. The Sutlej River is also known as ''Satadru''. It is the easternmost tributary of the ...
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...
*''Ob River
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The Ob ( rus, Обь, p=opʲ: Ob') is a major river in Russia. It is in western Siberia; and together with Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at . It forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins ...
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** Irtysh (额尔齐斯河)
*** Bieliezeke River (别列则克河)
*** Haba River (哈巴河)
***Burqin River Burqin may refer to:
China
*Burqin County, a county in Xinjiang
* (布尔津镇), a town and the seat of Burqin County
* (布尔津河), in Xinjiang
Palestine
* Burqin, Palestine
* Burqin Church
The Burqin Church ( ar, كنيسة برقين), al ...
(布尔津河)
**** Kanas River
*****Kanas Lake
Kanas Lake (, Xiao'erjing: كَانَاسِ خٗ; Mongolian: Ханас нуур; , USY: Қанас Көли) is a lake in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. The lake is located in a valley in the Altai Mountains, near the very northern tip of ...
**** Hemu River
*** Kala Irtysh River (喀拉额尔齐斯河)
Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (; also spelled endoreic basin or endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes ...
s
Manas Lake
The Manas Lake () is a salt lake in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. It is located in the western part of the Dzungarian Basin, within the Gurbantünggüt Desert. Administratively, the lake is in Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County; the clos ...
(玛纳斯湖)
** Manas River (玛纳斯河)
* Ailik Lake
The Ailik or Aylik Lake (; also transcribed as the argeAlike Lake) is a lake in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the Dzungarian Basin, on the edge of the Gurbantünggüt Desert. Administratively, t ...
(艾里克湖)
** Baiyang River The Baiyang River (), also known under a Mongolian name transcribed in Chinese as Namuguolei (), is a river in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. It flows through the region's Tacheng Prefecture and the Urho District of Karamay City. The ...
(白杨河)
Ili Basin
* '' Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan
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** Ili river
The Ili ( ug, ئىلى دەرياسى, Ili deryasi, Ili dəryasi, 6=Или Дәряси; kk, Ile, ; russian: Или; zh, c=伊犁河, p=Yīlí Hé, dng, Йили хә, Xiao'erjing: اِلِ حْ; mn, Ил, literally "Bareness") is a river si ...
*** Kax River (喀什河; also known as the Kash River)
*** Tekes River (特克斯河)
Lake Alakol
* '' Lake Alakol (Kazakhstan
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)''
** Emil (Emin) River
* ''Lake Zhalanashkol
Lake Zhalanashkol ( kz, Жалаңашкөл, literally "Bare Lake", or "Exposed Lake"; russian: Жаланашколь) is a freshwater lake in the eastern part of Kazakhstan, on the border of Almaty Province (Alakol District) and East Kazakhstan ...
(Kazakhstan
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** Terekty (Tielieketi) River
Qaidam Basin
The Qaidam, Tsaidam, or Chaidamu Basin is a hyperarid basin that occupies a large part of Haixi Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China. The basin covers an area of approximately , one-fourth of which is covered by saline lakes and playas. Aroun ...
* Golmud River
The Golmud or Ge'ermu River is a river in Golmud County, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. It flows north from the Kunlun Mountains to Dabusun and (occasionally) West Dabusun Lakes in the central Qarhan Playa in the southeastern ...
Tarim Basin
The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Northwest China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.Chen, Yaning, et al. "Regional climate change and its effects on river runoff in the Tarim Basin, China." Hyd ...
*Qiemo River
The Qiemo River (), also called the Cherchen () or Qarqan River, runs across the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It feeds into the Lop Nor salty marshes.
Historical maps
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* Kaidu River
* Tarim River - ends in the Lop Lake
** Muzat River
** Khotan River
*** Karakash (Black Jade River) (黑玉江)
*** Yurungkash (White Jade River) (白玉江)
** Aksu River
*** Toshkan River
**Yarkand River
The Yarkand River (or Yarkent River, Yeh-erh-ch'iang Ho) is a river in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. It originates in the Siachen Muztagh in a part of the Karakoram range and flows into the Tarim River or Neinejoung R ...
***Kashgar River
The Kashgar (or ''Kaxgar'', in its upper course ''Kyzylsuu'', ug, قەشقەر دەرياسى, Qeshqer deryasi; ) is a river in the Xinjiang province of the People's Republic of China. It has its sources in the eastern parts of the Pamir Mount ...
*** Tashkurgan River
***Shaksgam River
The Shaksgam River (, hi, शक्सगाम नदी, translit=Shaksgām Nadi, ur, دریائے شکسگام, translit=Daryá-e-Shaksgám) is a left tributary of the Yarkand River. The river is also known as the Kelechin River ( zh, 克勒 ...
*Shule River
The Shule River ( zh, c=疏勒河, p=Shūlè Hé) is the second largest inland river in Gansu Province, China, and one of the three major inland river systems in the Hexi Corridor.
Water system
The Shule River system is composed of the main stre ...
** Dang River
** Lucao River
*** Yulin River
** Changma River
*Karatash River
The Karatash River (Koshan, Ku'shan Ho), is south of Kashgar in the Kongur Tagh Range, (also referred to as the 'Kongur Shan', or 'Kongur Alps'), of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. It runs from near the eastern side of the 'Old K ...
Canals
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ...
*Grand Canal of China
The Grand Canal, known to the Chinese as the Jing–Hang Grand Canal (, or more commonly, as the「大运河」("Grand Canal")), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest canal or artificial river in the world. Starting in Beijing, it passes ...
(大运河)
*Lingqu Canal
The Lingqu () is a canal in Xing'an County, near Guilin, in the northwestern corner of Guangxi, China. It connects the Xiang River (which flows north into the Yangtze) with the Li River (which flows south into the Gui River and Xijiang), a ...
(灵渠), between the basins of the Pearl River and the Yangtze
*Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal
The Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal (), also known as the Project 635 () Canal, is a system of water-transfer canals and reservoirs in the northern part of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. It transfers water from the Irtysh River (whi ...
(irrigation only)
See also
* Geography of China * List of rivers of Asia *Lakes in China
This is a list of lakes of China.
Lakes of China include:
See also
{{Portal, China, Geography, Lakes
*List of saltwater lakes of China
There are thousands of lakes in the People's Republic of China, including 945 saltwater lakes and 166 sal ...
* List of waterways in China
References
External links
* Interactive map with China's river basins, showing river names in Chinese.Table of rivers in China
with Chinese names and useful data (dead link 01:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)) {{Asia topic, List of rivers of *
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Rivers
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