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River A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
s that flow through
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
are as follows. The list is organized according to the body of water into which each river empties, beginning with the
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in the northeast, moving clockwise on a map and ending with the
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* Heilong River (黑龙江) (Amur River) **
Ussuri River The Ussuri ( ; ) or Wusuli ( ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China in the province of Heilongjiang. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and for ...
(乌苏里江) ***
Muling River Muling or Muren () is a river in Northeast China, a left tributary of the Ussuri. Its length is , and its basin area is approximately . Jixi and Hulin are located on Muling River. The area of the river is known by Sino-Soviet conflict (1929) an ...
(穆棱河) *** Songacha River (松阿察河) **
Songhua River The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea border through China's northe ...
(松花江) ***
Ashi River The Ashi River is a right tributary of the Songhua in eastern Manchuria,. in Harbin's Acheng District in the People's Republic of China. Name The river has borne the name "Ashi" since the Qing (17th–20th century). Before that, it was known a ...
(阿什河) *** Hulan River (呼兰河) *** Second Songhua River (第二松花江) *** Woken River (倭肯河) *** Mudan River (牡丹江) ***
Nen River The Nen River or Nenjiang ( zh, c=, p=Nèn Jiāng, w=Nen-chiang), 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 ...
(嫩江) **** Gan River (Inner Mongolia) (甘河) ***
Huifa River The Huifa River () is a 267.7-km-long tributary of the Second Songhua River in center Northeast China. The source of river is located in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County of Liaoning Province and flows generally from west to east across Meihekou ...
(辉发河) ** Argun (额尔古纳河) *** Hailar River (海拉尔河) *** Hulun Lake (呼伦湖) ****
Kherlen River Kherlen River (also known as Kerülen; ; ) is a 1,254 km river in Mongolia and China. It is also one of the two longest rivers in Mongolia, along with the Orkhon River. Course The river originates in the south slopes of the Khentii mount ...
(克鲁伦河) **** Buir Lake (贝尔湖) (mostly in Mongolia)


Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it ...

* Suifen River (绥芬河) / Razdolnaya River (Russia) *
Tumen River The Tumen River (, , ; Korean pronunciation: tumaŋaŋ">Help:IPA/Korean">tumaŋaŋ, also known as the Tuman River or Duman River, is a long river that serves as part of the boundary between China (left shore), North Korea (right) and Russi ...
(图们江) ** Hunchun River (珲春河)


Bohai Sea The Bohai Sea ( zh, c=渤海, p=Bó Hǎi, l=Bo Sea) is a gulf/inland sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects via the Bohai Strait. It ...

* Anzi River (鞍子河) *
Fuzhou River Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Mindong linguistic and cultural region. Fuzhou's population was 8, ...
(复州河) *
Daliao River The Daliao River ( zh, s=大辽河, t=大遼河, p=Dàliáohé, "Great Liao River") is a major river system in eastern Liaoning province of Northeast China, and formerly the main distributary of the lower Liao River until 1958. The Daliao Rive ...
(大辽河) * Liao (辽河) ** Taizi River (太子河) ** Hun River (浑河) ** Liu River (柳河) **Dongliao River (东辽河) ** Xiliao River (西辽河) *** Xar Moron River (西拉木伦河) * Daling River (大凌河) * Yantai River (烟台河) * Liugu River (六股河) * Shi River (石河) * Gou River (狗河) * Dashi River (大石河) * Jiujiang River (九江河) * Dai River (戴河) * Yang River (洋河) * Luan (滦河) * Hai (海河) ** Chaobai River (潮白河) ***Chao River ***Bai River ** Wei (潍河) ** Zhang (漳河) ** Yongding (永定河) *** Sanggan River (桑干河) *** Yang He (洋河) ** Daqing River (大清河) *** Juma River (拒马河) ** Wei (卫河) *Tuhai River (徒駭河) *
Yellow River The Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of and a Drainage basin, watershed of . Beginning in the Bayan H ...
(Huang He) (黃河) ** Yufu River (玉符河) ** Beidasha River (北大沙河) ** Nandasha River (南大沙河) ** Dawen River (大汶河) *** Liuchang River (柳长河 or 流长河) ***Yuejin River (跃进河) *** Hui River (汇河) ****Jinxian River (金线河) **** Kangwang River (康王河) ***Wu River (五河) ***Beiquan River (北泉河) ***Cao River (漕河) ***Miaojia River (苗家河) *** Chaiwen River (柴汶河) ****Yucun River (禹村河) ****Guangming River (光明河) ****Yangliu River (羊流河) ****Xizhou River (西周河) ****Pingyang River (平阳河) ****Weishui River (渭水河) ***Panwen River (泮汶河) ***Zhitian River (芝田河) ***Tao River (陶河) *** Yingwen River (瀛汶河) **** Shiwen River (石汶河) *** Fangxia River (方下河) ***Lianhua River (莲花河) ***Lixin River (里辛河) ** Jindi River (金堤河) *** Huangzhuang River (黄庄河) **
Luo River (Henan) The Luo River () is a tributary of the Yellow River in China. It rises in the southeast flank of Mount Hua in Shaanxi province and flows east into Henan province, where it eventually joins the Yellow River at the city of Gongyi. The river's tota ...
(洛河 (南)) ** Yi River (伊河) ** Qin River (沁河) ** Wei (渭河) *** Jing (泾河) ***
Luo River (Shaanxi) Luo River, also known by its Chinese name as the is a tributary of the Wei River. It flows through the Loess Plateau and has a length of about . History The area between the Luo and the Yellow River was known in ancient China The histor ...
(洛河 (北)) **
Fen A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetland along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires ...
(汾河) ** Yan River (延河) **
Wuding River The Wuding River () begins in the Ordos Desert in Shaanxi Province, Inner Mongolia and flows south into loess canyons and farmland. After around it flows into the great Yellow River. The Wuding has its own tributaries, such as the Dali River, Ha ...
(无定河/無定河) ** Kuye River (窟野河) ** Dahei River (大黑河) ** Qingshui River (清水河) ** Zuli River (祖厉河/祖厲河) **
Tao River Tao River, Taohe River () or Lu Chu () is a right tributary of China's Yellow River. It starts in Xiqing Mountains () near the Gansu– Qinghai border, flows eastward across Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and then northward more or les ...
(洮河) **
Daxia River The Daxia River () or Sangchu () is a tributary of the Yellow River in southern Gansu province in China's west. The Daxia River starts in eastern Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, then flows easterly through northern Gannan Tib ...
(大夏河) ** Huangshui River (湟水河) ** White River (白河) * Xiaoqing (小清河, formerly known as 济河) ** Zihe River (淄河) ** (Xin)Tahe River *** Yanghe River (阳河) ** Zhangseng River *** Mihe River


Yellow Sea The Yellow Sea, also known as the North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea. Names It is one of four ...

* Yalu (鸭绿江) -
Korea Bay Korea(n) Bay, sometimes West Korea(n) Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning Province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South P ...
* Dayang River (大洋河) -
Korea Bay Korea(n) Bay, sometimes West Korea(n) Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning Province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South P ...
* Huli River (湖里河) -
Korea Bay Korea(n) Bay, sometimes West Korea(n) Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning Province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South P ...
* Yingna River (英那河) -
Korea Bay Korea(n) Bay, sometimes West Korea(n) Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning Province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South P ...
* Zhuang River (庄河) -
Korea Bay Korea(n) Bay, sometimes West Korea(n) Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning Province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South P ...
* Xiaosi River (小寺河) -
Korea Bay Korea(n) Bay, sometimes West Korea(n) Bay (; ; or ), is a bight and the northern extension of the Yellow Sea, between the southeastern coastline of China's Liaoning Province and the western coastline of North Korea's North Pyongan, South P ...
* Jiao (胶河) * Yishui River (沂河) ** Shu (沭河) ** Si (泗河) * Northern Jiangsu Irrigation Channel ** Hongze Lake (洪泽湖) *** Huai (淮河) **** Hui River (浍河) **** Guo River (涡河) ****
Ying River The Ying River () is the largest tributary of the Huai River with its origin in Henan Province, People's Republic of China. From Zhoukou City in Henan, the river flows through Fuyang City in Anhui Province then empties into the Huai River at Zhe ...
(颍河) - also known as Shaying River (沙颖) **** Xiaorun River (小润河) **** Gu River (谷河) **** Shiguan (史灌河) *****Guan River (灌河) *****
Hong River The Red River or the Hong River (; ; Chữ Nôm: 瀧紅), also known as the ' (lit. "Main River"; Chữ Nôm: 瀧丐) in Vietnamese and the (, ') in Chinese, is a -long river that flows from Yunnan in Southwest China through no ...
(洪河) ****Huang River (潢河) ****Lü River (闾河) **** Ming River (明河) ****You River (游河) **** Yue River, Shaanxi


East China Sea The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. China names the body of water along its eastern coast as "East Sea" (, ) due to direction, the name of "East China Sea" is otherwise ...

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Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
(Chang Jiang 长江; upper reach known as
Jinsha Jiang The Jinsha River (, Tibetan: Dri Chu, འབྲི་ཆུ, ) or Lu river, is the Chinese name for the upper stretches of the Yangtze River. It flows through the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan in western China. The river passes ...
金沙江 and
Tongtian River The Tongtian River ( zh, , ) or Zhi Qu ( Tibetan) is a long river in Qinghai Province in western China. It begins at the confluence of the Ulan Moron and Dangqu rivers, before flowing southeast and meeting the Jinsha River near the border ...
通天河) (For detailed list see List of tributaries of the Yangtze.) **
Huangpu River The Huangpu (), formerly romanized as Whangpoo, is a river flowing north through Shanghai. The Bund and Lujiazui are located along the Huangpu River. The Huangpu is the biggest river in central Shanghai, with the Suzhou Creek being its ...
(黃浦江) *** Suzhou Creek or Wusong River (苏州河, 吴淞江) ** Xitiao River (西苕溪) *** Daxi Creek ** Grand Canal (大运河) ** Qinhuai River *** Gaoyou Lake (高邮湖) ****Sanhe River (三河) ***** Hongze Lake ******
Huai River The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of . It is located about midway between the Yellow River and Yangtze River, the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins ...
**Guxi River (姑溪河) *** Shijiu Lake (石臼湖) **Yuxi River (裕溪河) *** Lake Chao ***Nanfei River (南淝河) ** Qingyi River (青弋江) ***Jingshan River (荆山河) ***Daoni River (倒逆河) ***Zhaxi River (渣溪河) ***Machuan River (麻川河) ***Taiping Lake (太平湖) ****Sanxikou River (三溪口) ****Qingxi River (清溪河) ****Shuxi River (舒溪河) **
Poyang Lake Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China. Located within Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province, it is fed by the Gan, Xin, and Xiu rivers and flows northward into the Yangtze River through a channel. The area of Poyang Lake f ...
*** Gan River (Jiangxi) (赣江) **** Zhang (章江) **** Gongshui (貢水) ***** Mei (梅河) ***** Xiang (湘水) *** Fuhe (抚河) *** Xin (信江) **
Fushui The Fushui River (富水) is a river flowing through Tongshan and Yangxin Counties in the south-eastern part of Hubei province, China. Size and origin The river is long. It originates in the Mufu Mountains, flows in the general eastern dir ...
(富水) ** She River (灄水) ** Han River (汉江 or 汉水) *** Chi (池水) *** Muma (牧马河) *** Du River **
Lake Dongting Dongting Lake () is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan Province, China. It is a flood basin of the Yangtze River, so its volume depends on the season. The provinces of Hubei and Hunan are named after their location relative to the la ...
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Miluo River The Miluo River (, and with modified Wade–Giles using the form Mi-lo) is located on the eastern bank of Dongting Lake, the largest tributary of the Xiang River in the northern Hunan Province. It is an important river in the Dongting Lake wa ...
(汨罗江) *** Xiang (湘江) **** Xiaoshui (瀟水) **** Zhengshui (氶水) *** Zijiang (Zi) (资江) ***
Yuanjiang Yuanjiang () is a county-level city in the Province of Hunan, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yiyang. Located in the north of the province, the city is bordered to the north by Nan County, to the northeast b ...
(Yuan) (沅江) ***
Lishui Lishui (; Lishuinese: ''li⁶ syu³'' ) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Quzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou to the north, Wenzhou to the southeast, and the province of Fujian to ...
(Li) (澧水) **** Loushui River (溇水) **
Qing River The Qing River () is a right (southern) tributary of the Yangtze River, Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in Hubei province of south-central China., Geography Course The Qing River river source, Headwaters originate at Teng Long Dong, Tenglong Cave ...
(清江) **
Huangbo River The Huangbai River or Huangbo River () is a river in China's Hubei Province, a left tributary of the Yangtze River. The Huangbai is located entirely within the prefecture-level city of Yichang Yichang ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alter ...
(黄柏河) ** Shennong Stream (神农溪) ** Daning River (大宁河) ** Modao Creek (磨刀溪) ** Jialing (嘉陵江) *** Fujiang (涪江) *** Qujiang (渠江) *** Baishui (白水) *** Bailong (白龙江) *** Liuchong River (Jialing) ** Longxi River (龙溪河) ** Huaxi River (花溪河) ** Qi River (綦江) ** Sunxi River (笋溪河) **
Wu River (Yangtze River tributary) The Wu River () is the largest southern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nearly its entire length of runs within the isolated, mountainous and ethnically diverse province of Guizhou. The river takes drainage from a watershed. The river flows th ...
(乌江) *** Sancha River *** Liuchong River *** Qingshuihe River **
Tuo River The Tuo River () is -long river in Sichuan province of southern China. The Tuo River is one of the major tributaries of the upper Yangtze River (''Chang Jiang''). Geography The river originates at the northwest edge of Sichuan basin. It flows ...
(沱江) ** Chishui River (赤水河) ** Min (Sichuan) (岷江) ***
Dadu River (Sichuan) The Dadu River (, ), known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu (), is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min Rive ...
(大渡河) **** Qingyi Jiang (青衣江) **** Nanya River *** Caopo River () **
Yalong River The Yalong River ( zh, 雅砻江, Pinyin, p ''Yǎlóngjiāng'', Wade–Giles, w ''Ya-lung Chiang'', Help:IPA/Mandarin, IPA ), or Nyag Chu (Standard Tibetan, Tibetan: , Tibetan pinyin, z ''Nyag Qu''), is a major tributary ...
() *** Muli River **
Pudu River The Pudu River (), also known as the Tanglang River (), is a major river in Yunnan Province in southwest China. Geography The river leaves Dian Lake near Haikou Subdistrict ( 海口街道) in Xishan District, Kunming, in the southwestern part o ...
** Dadan River () ** Shuoduogang River (硕多岗河) *
Qiantang River The Qiantang River (), formerly known as the Hangchow River Postal Map Romanization, or Tsientang River, is a rivers of China, river in East China. An important commercial artery, it runs for through Zhejiang, passing through the provincial c ...
(钱塘江) / Xin'an River (新安江) **Heng River (横江) *** Longchuan River (龙川) ***Fengxi River (丰溪河) *
Cao'e River The Cao'e River () is one of the largest rivers in Zhejiang Province of East China, named after Cao E, a Han dynasty girl venerated for her filial piety. Its main source is in Pan'an County in the Dapan Mountains, and the river empties into the ...
(曹娥江) * Yong River (甬江) * Jiao River (椒江) *
Ou River (Zhejiang) The Ou River () or Oujiang is the second-largest river in the Zhejiang province of eastern China. The river flows before finally reaching the city of Wenzhou and emptying into the East China Sea, into which it discharges of water annually. She ...
(瓯江) * Mulan River (木蘭溪畔) ** Xikou River ** Dajixi River * Ao River (敖江)


Taiwan Strait The Taiwan Strait is a strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide. Names Former names of the Tai ...

* Min (Fujian) (闽江) * Long (Fujian) (龙江) * Quanzhou Bay: **
Luo River (Fujian) The Luoyang River, or Luoyang Jiang, is a river in Quanzhou in Fujian, China. It flows in the general southern direction and forms a long and wide estuary as it enters Quanzhou Bay on the Taiwan Strait. The estuary separates Quanzhou's Luojiang ...
(洛江) ** Jin River (Fujian) (晋江) *
Jiulong River The Jiulong River, formerly known as the Longjiang or Zhangjiang, is the largest river in southern Fujian and the second largest in the province. It has a length of and a basin of . Like all Fujianese rivers but one, it flows into the Tai ...
(九龙江)


South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan island, Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luz ...

* Han (韩江) ** Mei (梅江) *** Ning (宁江) ** Ting (汀江) ** Dajing (大靖河) *
Pearl River The Pearl River (, or ) is an extensive river system in southern China. "Pearl River" is often also used as a catch-all for the watersheds of the Pearl tributaries within Guangdong, specifically the Xi ('west'), Bei ('north'), and Dong ( ...
(Zhu Jiang) (珠江) **
Dongjiang The Dong River is the easternmost main tributary of the Pearl River, flowing through Guangdong and Jiangxi in southern China. It's source is Mount Yajibo in Xunwu County in Jiangxi. Since 1960, water from the Dong has also been exported ...
(Dong) (东江) **
Liuxihe River The Liuxi River ( zh, s=流溪河, p=Liúxī Hé), or simply Liuxi, is a tributary of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River in China with its basin situated northeast of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. It lies between the Beijiang River and Dongj ...
** Beijiang (Bei) (北江) ** Xinfeng River **
Xijiang The Xi River (; ) or Si-Kiang is the western tributary of the Pearl River in southern China. It is formed by the confluence of the Gui and Xun Rivers in Wuzhou, Guangxi. It originates from the eastern foot of the Maxiong Mountain in Qujing ...
(Xi) (西江) *** Guijiang (Gui) (桂江) ****
Lijiang Lijiang ( zh, s= ), formerly romanized as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) ...
(Li) (漓江) *** Xunjiang (Xun) (浔江) **** Qian (黔江) *****
Liu River The Liu River (, pinyin: Liǔ Jiāng, literally: ''Willow River'') is a tributary within the Pearl River system in Guangxi, China. It is formed by the confluence of the Rong and Long rivers in Fengshan. It flows south through Liuzhou and th ...
(柳江) ****** Rong River (融江 ******
Long River (Guangxi) The Long River ( Chinese: 龙江, pinyin: Lóng Jiāng, literally: ''Dragon River'') is a river system in northern Guangxi Province, China. It is a part of the larger Pearl River system by way of the Liu, Qian, Xun, and Xi Rivers. Its true ...
龙江) ***** Hongshui (Red River) (红水河) ****** Beipan (北盘江) ****** Nanpan (南盘江) ******* Qu River (曲江) ******** Lian River (Qu River) (练江) **** Yujiang (Yu) (鬱江) *****
Yongjiang The Yong River () is a river of China, located in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It joins into the Yu River and flows into the South China Sea. See also * Yong River () in Zhejiang ) , translit_lang1_type2 = , translit_lang1_ ...
(Yong) (邕江) ****** Zuojiang (Zuo) (左江) ****** Youjiang (You) (右江) * Beilun River (北仑河) * Yuan River (元江) / (Red River) ** Nanwen River (南温河) /
Lô River The Lô River () is a major river of Vietnam. It flows through Hà Giang Province, Tuyên Quang Province and Phú Thọ Province for 470 kilometres and has a basin area of 39,000 km2 and originates in Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland P ...
** Lixian River (李仙江) / (Black River) *
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas () is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yunnan province, China. It lies within the drainage basins of the upper reaches of the Jinsha (Yangtze), Lancang (Mekong) and Nujiang ( Salween) rivers, in ...
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Lancang River The Mekong or Mekong River ( , ) is a transboundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia with an estimated length of and a drainage area of , discharging of wat ...
(澜沧江) (Mekong) *Nanju River (南桔河) *Nanla River (南腊河) *Luosuo River (罗梭江)


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Hainan Island Hainan is an island province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally means "South of the Sea ...

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Nandu River The Nandu River () is the longest river in Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the ...
(南渡江) ** Haidian River *
Wanquan River The Wanquan River () is the third longest river in Hainan Province, China, and is 162 km long. It rises in the Wuzhi Mountain, and flows generally northeast turbulently in a narrow route through mountainous regions. About halfway downstream, ...
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Andaman Sea The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated f ...

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Nu River The Salween is a Southeast Asian river, about long, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau south into the Andaman Sea. The Salween flows primarily within southwest China and eastern Myanmar, with a short section forming the border of Myanmar and Tha ...
(怒江) / (Salween River) ** Wanma River (万马河) ** Hongyang River (硔养河) ** Mengboluo River (勐波罗河) ** Supa River (苏帕河) ** Shidian River (施甸河) ** Luomingba River (罗明坝河) * ''
Irrawaddy River The Irrawaddy River (, , Ayeyarwady) is the principal river of Myanmar, running through the centre of the country. Myanmar’s most important commercial waterway, it is about 1,350 miles (2,170 km) long. Originating from the confluence of the ...
(Myanmar)'' ** Daying River (大盈江) / (Taping River) ** Longchuan River (龙川江) / (Shweli River) **''
N'Mai River The N'Mai River or N'Mai Hka (, ) is a river in northern Myanmar (Burma). The northern part of the river is sometimes referred to as the Nam Tamai. Course The N'Mai runs parallel to the Mali River, and has its source in the Himalayan glaciers of ...
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Dulong River Dulong may refer to: * Dulong people or Derung people, a Chinese ethnic group * Dulong language, a Tibeto-Burman language in China * Dulong, Queensland, a locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Australia * Dulong River in southeast Tibet Peopl ...
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Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent and the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese peninsula, located below the Bengal region. Many South Asian and Southe ...

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Ganges River The Ganges ( ; in India: Ganga, ; in Bangladesh: Padma, ). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary rive ...
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Padma River The Padma () is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the eastern and main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for to its confluence with the Meghna River, near the Bay of Bengal. The city of Rajshahi is situated on the banks ...
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Meghna River The Meghna () is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. A part of the Surma-Meghna River System, the Meghna is formed inside Banglade ...
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Yarlung Tsangpo River The Yarlung Tsangpo, also called Yarlung Zangbo () and Yalu Zangbu River () is a river that flows through the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and Arunachal Pradesh of India. It is the longest river of Tibet and the fifth longest in China. The u ...
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Subansiri River The Subansiri (Chayul Chu in Tibet) is a trans- Himalayan river and a tributary of the Brahmaputra River that flows through Tibet's Lhuntse County in the Shannan Prefecture in Southwestern China, and the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and A ...
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Lhasa River The Lhasa River, also called Kyi Chu (, ), is a northern tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The Yarlung Tsangpo is the upper section of the Brahmaputra River. The Lhasa River is subject t ...
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Parlung Tsangpo Parlung Tsangpo or Parlung Zangbo (; ), also known as Palongzangbu River, is a river in Nyingchi, Tibet, China. It is the largest tributary on the left side of Yarlung Tsangpo. Its source is the Arza Gongla Glacier, at an elevation of 4900m. It f ...
(帕隆藏布) ***Yigong Tsangpo (易贡藏布) *** Zayuqu (察隅曲) /
Lohit River The Lohit River, whose name came from the Assamese word ''Lohit'' meaning 'blood', also known as the Zayul Chu by the Tibetans, Tilao by the Ahoms and Tellu by the Mishmis, is a river in China and India, which joins the Brahmaputra River in ...
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Nyang River The Nyang River (; ; also transliterated as Niyang or Nanpan) is a major river in south-west Tibet and the second largest tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River by discharge. Geography The Nyang has a length of 307.5 km and originates at ...
( ཉང་ཆུ, 尼洋曲) ***'' Manas River (
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Kosi River The Kosi or Koshi is a transboundary river which flows through China, Nepal and India. It drains the northern slopes of the Himalayas in Tibet and the southern slopes in Nepal. From a major confluence of tributaries north of the Chatra Gorge o ...
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Tamakoshi River The Tamakoshi River () is part of the Koshi or Sapta Koshi river system in Nepalese Himalayas. It originates from the (or Rongshar Tsangpo) and Lapchi Gang rivers close to the Nepal-Tibet border. It flows in a southern direction through Bagm ...
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Ghaghara River The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and as the Sarayu River in the lower Ghaghara of India's Awadh, is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalaya ...
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Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea () is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and ...

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Indus River The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayas, Himalayan river of South Asia, South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in the Western Tibet region of China, flows northw ...
**''Panjnad River (Pakistan)'' *** Langqên Zangbo (གླང་ཆེན་གཙང་པོ, 象泉河) /
Sutlej River The Sutlej River or the Satluj River is a major river in Asia, flowing through China, India and Pakistan, and is the longest of the five major rivers of the Punjab region. It is also known as ''Satadru''; and is the easternmost tributary of th ...


Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. It spans an area of approximately and is the coldest of the world's oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, ...

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Ob River The Ob (; ) is a major river in Russia. It is in western Siberia, and with its tributary the Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at . The Ob forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins in the Alta ...
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Irtysh The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob (river), Ob and is also the longest tributary in the world. The river's source lies in the Altai Mountains, Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern p ...
(额尔齐斯河) *** Bieliezeke River (别列则克河) ***
Haba River Haba may refer to: * Habermaaß, a.k.a. Haba, a German toy maker * Haba, Togo, a village in the Bassar Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-western Togo * Haba Xueshan, a mountain in Yunnan, China * La Haba, a municipality located in the provinc ...
(哈巴河) *** Burqin River (布尔津河) ****
Kanas River The Kanas River () is a river in Burqin County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It originates from the main peaks of the Altai Mountains. It is a perennial river with a total length of 125 kilometers, an average width of about 50 meters, and a m ...
(喀纳斯河) ***** Kanas Lake (喀纳斯湖) **** Hemu River (禾木河) *** Kala Irtysh River (喀拉额尔齐斯河)


Endorheic basin An endorheic basin ( ; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent ...
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Dzungarian Basin

* Ulungur Lake (乌伦古湖) **
Ulungur River The Ulungur River / Urungu River or Urungu (, zh, c=乌伦古河, p=Wūlúngǔ hé), in its upper reaches in Mongolia known as the Bulgan River (), is a river of China and Mongolia. It rises in the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia, flows s ...
(乌伦古河) * Manas Lake (玛纳斯湖) ** Manas River (玛纳斯河) * Ailik Lake (艾里克湖) ** Baiyang River (白杨河)


Ili Basin

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Lake Balkhash Lake Balkhash, also spelt Lake Balqash (, , ), is a lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, one of the largest lakes in Asia and the 15th largest in the world. It is located in the eastern part of Central Asia and sits in the Balkhash-Alakol Basin, ...
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Ili river The Ili River (, , ; ; ; zh, 伊犁河, ; , ; , ) is a river in Northwest China and Southeastern Kazakhstan. It flows from the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region to the Almaty Region in Kazakhstan. It ...
(伊犁河) *** Kax River (喀什河; also known as the Kash River) *** Tekes River (特克斯河)


Juyan Lake Basin

* Ejin River


Lake Alakol

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Lake Alakol Alakol Lake (, , from Turkic "motley lake") is a lake located in the Balkhash-Alakol Basin, part of the Abai Region, Abai and Jetisu Region, Jetisu regions, in east-central Kazakhstan. Its elevation is above sea level. The lake is the northwe ...
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Qaidam Basin

* Golmud River (格尔木河)


Tarim Basin The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.Chen, Yaning, et al. "Regional climate change and its effects on river runoff in the Tarim Basin, Ch ...

* Qiemo River (且末河) * Kaidu River (开都河) * Tarim River (塔里木河) - ends in the
Lop Lake Lop Nur or Lop Nor (, , from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the ''Lop Depression'' in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in ...
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Muzat River The Muzart River () or Muzat River (; ) is a river in Aksu Prefecture of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, a left tributary of the Tarim River. An early 20th-century source also gives an alternative name for this river ...
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Khotan River The Hotan River (also known as the Khotan River or the Ho-t'ien River) is formed by the union of the White Jade River, White Jade (Yurungkash) and Karakash River, Karakash (Black Jade) Rivers, which flow north from the Kunlun Mountains into the ...
(和田河) *** Karakash (Black Jade River) (黑玉江) *** Yurungkash (White Jade River) (白玉江) ** Aksu River (阿克苏河) *** Toshkan River (托什干河) **
Yarkand River The Yarkand River (or Yarkent River, Yeh-erh-ch'iang Ho) is a river in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. It originates in the Siachen Muztagh in a part of the Karakoram range and flows into the Tarim River or Neinejoung ...
(叶尔羌河) *** Kashgar River (喀什河) *** Tashkurgan River (塔什库尔干河) *** Shaksgam River (沙克思干河) *
Shule River The Shule River ( zh, c=疏勒河, p=Shūlè Hé) is the second largest inland river in Gansu Province, China, and one of the three major inland river systems in the Hexi Corridor. Water system The Shule River system is composed of the main st ...
(疏勒河) ** Dang River ** Lucao River *** Yulin River ** Changma River * Karatash River (库山河)


Canals Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow u ...

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Eastern Zhejiang Canal The Eastern Zhejiang or Zhedong Canal, also known as the HangzhouNingbo or Hangyong Canal, is a major canal connecting Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo in northern Zhejiang, China. It runs , connecting the Qiantang, Cao'e, and Yong watersheds wi ...
(浙东运河), connecting the Qiantang, Cao'e, and Yong watersheds *
Grand Canal of China The Grand Canal () is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers and lakes in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern ...
(京杭大运河), connecting the Qiantang, Yangtze, Huai, Yellow R., and Hai watersheds *
South–North Water Transfer Project The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, is a multi-decade infrastructure mega-project in China that aims to channel 44.8 cubic kilometers (44.8 billion cubic meters) of fresh wat ...
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Lingqu Canal The Lingqu () is a canal in Xing'an County, near Guilin, in the northwestern corner of Guangxi, China. It connects the Xiang River (which flows north into the Yangtze) with the Li River (Guangxi), Li River (which flows south into the Gui ...
(灵渠), connecting the Yangtze and Pearl watersheds * Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal, providing irrigation to the grasslands and deserts of Xinjiang


See also

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Geography of China China has great physical diversity. The eastern plain and southern coasts of the country consist of fertile lowlands and foothills. They are the location of most of China's agricultural output and human population. The southern areas of the ...
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List of rivers of Asia This is a List of rivers of Asia. It includes major, notable rivers in Asia. Alphabetical order *Amu Darya - Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan - Aral Sea *Amur - Northeastern China, Russia (Siberia) - Sea of Okhotsk * Angara * Argun River ( ...
* Lakes in China * List of waterways in China


References


External links

* Interactive map with China's river basins, showing river names in Chinese.
Table of rivers in China
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