List of rivers of China facts for kids

Map of the Ganges (yellow), Brahmaputra (violet), and Meghna (green) drainage basins.

The following is a list of rivers in China, by where they flow into:

Arabian Sea

• Indus (印度河)

Bay of Bengal

• Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) (雅鲁藏布江) (joins the Ganges)

Andaman Sea

• Salween (萨尔温江 or 怒江)

South China Sea

• Mekong (湄公河)
• Red River (Vietnam) (红河, a.k.a. 元江)
• Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) (珠江)
  • Beijiang (Bei) (北江)
  • Dongjiang (Dong) (东江)
  • Han (韩江)
    • Mei (梅江)
      • Ning (宁江)
    • Ting (汀江)
    • Dajing (大靖河)
  • Xijiang (Xi) (西江)
    • Yujiang (Yu) (鬱江)
      • Yongjiang (Yong) (邕江）)
        • Zuojiang (Zuo) (左江)
        • Youjiang (You) (右江)
    • Xunjiang (Xun) (浔江）
      • Qiangjiang (Qiang) (黔江)
        • Rongjiang (Rong)（融江）
        • Hongshui (Red River) (红水河）
          • Beipan (北盘江)
          • Nanpan (南盘江)
            • Ba (灞水 or 灞河)
    • Guijiang (Gui) (桂江)
      • Lijiang (Li) (漓江)

Taiwan Strait

• Min (Fujian) (闽江)

East China Sea

• Qiantang River, Qian River (钱塘江 or 钱江, upper reach known as 新安江)
• Huangpu River (黃浦江)
• Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) (长江, upper reach known as 金沙江)
  • • Tongtian River
  • Yalong River (雅砻江）
  • Min (Sichuan) (岷江)
  • Wu (乌江）
  • Jialing (嘉陵江)
    • Bailong (白龙江)

• • • Baishui (白水)
    • Qujiang (渠江)
    • Fujiang (涪江)
  • Xiang (湘江)
    • Xiaoshui (瀟水)
    • Zhengshui (蒸水)
  • Lishui (Li) (澧水)
  • Yuanjiang (Yuan) (沅江)
    • Wu River (巫水)
  • Zijiang (Zi) (资江)
  • Hanshui (汉江 or 汉水)
  • Gan (赣江)
    • Zhang (章江)
    • Gongshui (貢水)
      • Mei (梅河)
      • Xiang (Jiangxi) (湘水)

Yellow Sea

• Huai (淮河)
  • Shaying (沙颖河)
• Yi (沂河)
  • Shu (沭河)
  • Si (泗河)
• Jiao (胶河)
• Yalu (鸭绿江) - Korea Bay

Bohai Sea

• Wei (潍河)
• Xiaoqing (小清河, formerly known as 济河)
• Yellow River (Huang He) (黃河)
  • Daxia (大峡河)
  • Fen (汾河)
  • Wei (渭河)
    • Jing (泾河)
  • Luo (洛河)
• Hai (海河)
  • Wei (卫河)
  • Zhang (漳河)
  • Yongding (永定河)
• Luan (滦河)
• Liao (辽河)

Sea of Japan

• Tumen River (图们江)
• Heilong Jiang (Heilongjiang) (黑龙江)
  • Songhua River (松花江)

Arctic Ocean

• Irtysh (额尔齐斯河) - Gulf of Ob (joins Ob River)

Canals

• Grand Canal of China (大运河)

Rivers that do not flow into any larger body of water

• Muzat River - tributary of the Tarim River
• Tarim River - ends in the Taklamakan Desert
• Ili river - ends in Lake Balkhash
• Karakash (Black Jade River) (黑玉江) - ends in the Taklamakan Desert
• Yurungkash (White Jade River) (白玉江) - ends in the Taklamakan Desert

Images for kids

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  Amur River basin

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  Liao River Basin

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  Wei River Basin

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  Yellow River Basin

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  Yalu River

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  Huai River basin

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  Lake Dongting and the Lishui, Yuan, Zi, Xiang and Miluo Rivers of Hunan.

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  Pearl River Basin

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  Red River (Asia) watershed

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  Lancang (Mekong) River watershed

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  Nandu River (map), Hainan Province

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  Nu (Salween) River

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  Ob-Irtysh watershed

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  Tarim Basin

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  Ili Basin