The Yalu River () is a river straddling the Chinese regions of
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...
and
Hulunbuir near the eastern
border with Russia. As a right tributary of the
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 the ...
, the Yalu starts on the eastern slopes of the
Greater Khingan
The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (; IPA: ), is a -long volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.
It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of th ...
Range, and flows in the general south-eastern direction through
Zalantun in Hulunbei'er and
Qiqihar
Qiqihar () is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up (or metro) area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, while the total populat ...
in Heilongjiang. The Yalu flows from the west into the Nen River some south of Qiqihar.
As the Nen then flows to the south and into the
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 ...
, and the Songhua, to the east and northeast and into the
Heilongjiang River, the Yalu River is part of the Heilongjiang River basin.
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Rivers of Inner Mongolia
Rivers of Heilongjiang
Songhua River