Crossword clues for yangtze
yangtze
- Chang, alternatively
- Three Gorges Dam site
- It has its outlet in the East China Sea
- Site of the Three Gorges Dam
- See 62-Down
- The longest river of Asia
- Flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai
- China's chief river
- Chinese river
- Get any in arrangement with Zulu banker?
- Chinese river (Z, not S)
- Any degenerates get involved with Zulu banker?
Wiktionary
alt. The longest river in China that flows to the East China Sea north of Shanghai. n. The longest river in China that flows to the East China Sea north of Shanghai.
Wikipedia
The Yangtze River ( or ), known in China as the Cháng Jiāng (; literally: "Long River") or the Yángzǐ Jiāng , 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 Yangtze River plays a large role in the history, culture and economy of China. The prosperous Yangtze River Delta generates as much as 20% of the PRC's GDP. The Yangtze River flows through a wide array of ecosystems and is habitat to several endemic and endangered species including the Chinese alligator, the finless porpoise, the Chinese paddlefish, the (possibly extinct) Yangtze River dolphin or baiji, and the Yangtze sturgeon. For thousands of years, the river has been used for water, irrigation, sanitation, transportation, industry, boundary-marking and war. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world.
In recent years, the river has suffered from industrial pollution, agricultural run-off, siltation, and loss of wetland and lakes, which exacerbates seasonal flooding. Some sections of the river are now protected as nature reserves. A stretch of the upstream Yangtze flowing through deep gorges in western Yunnan is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In mid-2014 the Chinese government announced it was building a multi-tier transport network, comprising railways, roads and airports, to create a new economic belt alongside the river.
Usage examples of "yangtze".
On most of the sectors civilization began in the valleys of the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates, or on the Indus and Yangtze.
Either way, the Yangtze has become very much more muddy during the history of the baiji species, mostly because of human activity.
Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China's Yellow River valley and South China's Yangtze River valley.
Water control systems also appear to have been associated with centralized political organization in some other areas of the world, including the Indus Valley of the Indian subcontinent, the Yellow and Yangtze Valleys of China, the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica, and the coastal desert of Peru.
Thousands of them got various local diseases, sometimes called by such undignified names as the Yangtze rapids, Delhi belly, the Roman groanin', or the like.
OF THE MAJOR RIVERS OF THE WORLD, THE NILE CASTS A romantic spell from an ancient past, the Amazon conjures up images of adventure and danger, while the Yangtze entwines the soul with the mysteries of the Orient.
Finest of all caviars is roe of the Yangtze sturgeon simmered in a decoction of the seeds of the honey locust!
But it is clear that if those efforts were suspended for a moment, the kakapos, the Yangtze river dolphins, the northern white rhinos and many others would vanish almost immediately.
The reason for this is that there is nothing to see in the Yangtze.
Sweatley and his Marines, plus several able-bodied Yangtze sailors and several of the 15th Infantry retirees, provide the armed force to protect everybody.