River
Yangtze
The longest river in Asia and the site of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest power station in the world by installed capacity.
Key facts
- Length
- approximately 6,300 km
- Basin area
- approximately 1.8 million km²
- Mean discharge
- approximately 30,000 m³/s
Relationships
- Located in: China
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted