Yangtze River valley
| Yangtze (长江 Cháng jiāng) | |
 Dusk on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River (Three Gorges)
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| Country |  China |
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| Tributaries | |
| - left | Yalong, Min, Tuo, Jialing, Han |
| - right | Wu, Yuan, Zi, Xiang, Gan, Huangpu |
| Cities | Yibin, Luzhou, Chongqing, Wanzhou, Yichang, Jingzhou, Yueyang, Wuhan, Jiujiang, Anqing, Tongling, Wuhu, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Nantong, Shanghai |
| Source | Jari Hill |
| - location | Tanggula Mountains, Qinghai, China |
| - elevation | 5,170 m (16,962 ft) |
| - coordinates | 32°36′14″N 94°30′44″E / 32.60389°N 94.51222°E |
| Mouth | East China Sea |
| - location | Shanghai, and Jiangsu |
| - coordinates | 31°23′37″N 121°58′59″E / 31.39361°N 121.98306°ECoordinates: 31°23′37″N 121°58′59″E / 31.39361°N 121.98306°E |
| Length | 6,300 km (3,915 mi) |
| Basin | 1,808,500 km2 (698,266 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 30,166 m3/s (1,065,302 cu ft/s) |
| - max | 110,000 m3/s (3,884,613 cu ft/s) |
| - min | 2,000 m3/s (70,629 cu ft/s) |
 The course of the Yangtze River through China
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"Yangtze River (Cháng jiāng)" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
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| Simplified Chinese | 长江 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 長江 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "The Long River" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 扬子江 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 揚子江 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tibetan | འབྲི་ཆུ་ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Cháng Jiāng |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Charng Jiang |
| Wade–Giles | Ch'ang2 Chiang1 |
| IPA | [ʈʂʰǎŋ tɕjáŋ] |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | Zan入 Kaon平 |
| Xiang | |
| IPA | dɒŋ13kiɒŋ44 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Chèuhng Gōng |
| IPA | [tsʰœ̏ːŋ kɔ́ːŋ] |
| Jyutping | Coeng4 Gong1 |
| Southern Min | |
| Tâi-lô | Tiông Kang |
| Middle Chinese | |
| Middle Chinese | ɖjang kæwng |
| Old Chinese | |
| Baxter–Sagart (2014) | *Cə-[N]-traŋ kˤroŋ |
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin |  Yángzǐ Jiāng |
| Wade–Giles | Yang-tzu Chiang |
| IPA | [jɑ̌ŋtsɨ̀ tɕjɑ́ŋ] |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | Yang入 Tse平 Kaon平 |
| Xiang | |
| IPA | jɒŋ13tsɯ31kiɒŋ44 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Joeng4-zi2 Gong1 |
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| Wylie | 'Bri Chu |
| THL | Dri Chu |
The Yangtze (English: /ˈjæŋtsi/ or /ˈjɑːŋtsi/), which is 6380 km long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It drains one-fifth of the land area of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its river basin is home to one-third of the country's population. The Yangtze is the sixth-largest river by discharge volume in the world.
The English name Yangtze derives from the Chinese name "Yángzǐ Jiāng" ( listen), which actually is the lowest 435 km part between Nanjing and Shanghai. The whole river is known in China as Cháng Jiāng ( listen; literally: "Long River").
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