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Fu River, or Fujiang () is a river of in China's
Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of th ...
Province and
Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a municipality in Southwest China. The official abbreviation of the city, "" (), was approved by the State Cou ...
Municipality. It is a right tributary of the Jialing River, which in its turn is a left tributary of the
Yangtze 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 flow ...
; it is thus part of the East China Sea basin. The Fujiang flows in the general southern and south-eastern direction across the central Sichuan ( Mianyang and Suining Prefectures), and then enters the Chongqing Municipality, where it merges with the Jialing.


See also

* List of rivers in China Rivers of Sichuan Tributaries of the Yangtze River {{China-river-stub