Yellow River

The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth. ^[1]

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Alluvial plain

An alluvial plain is a plain (a largely flat landform) created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms.

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Altair

Altair is the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky.

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Amne Machin

Amne Machin, Anyi Machen, or Anyê Maqên ("Grandfather Pomra") is the highest peak of a mountain range of the same name in the southeast of Qinghai province, China.

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Amur catfish

Silurus asotus, commonly called the Japanese common catfish, Amur catfish, Far Eastern catfish, and Chinese catfish, is a catfish species belonging to the Siluridae family.

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Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms

Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms by Pei Songzhi (372–451) is an annotation completed in the 5th century of the 3rd century historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms, compiled by Chen Shou.

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Aquaculture in China

China, with one-fifth of the world's population, accounts for two-thirds of the world's reported aquaculture production.

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Asian carp

Asian carp is a grouping of fishes commonly used to mean silver, bighead carp, white and black amur, which are regarded invasive in the United States.

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Asian swamp eel

The Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus), also known as rice eel, ricefield eel, rice paddy eel or white rice-field eel, is a commercially important air-breathing species of fish in the family Synbranchidae.

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Autonomous regions of China

The autonomous regions are one of four types of province-level divisions of China.

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Avulsion (river)

In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel.

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Ayu sweetfish

The ayu sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis), or sweetfish, is a species of fish.

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Bagridae

The Bagridae are a family of catfish that are native to Africa (Bagrus) and Asia (all other genera) from Japan to Borneo.

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Baotou

Baotou is the largest city by urban population in Inner Mongolia, China.

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Bayan Har Mountains

The Bayan Har Mountains, formerly known as the Bayen-káras or Bayan-Kara-Ula, are a mountain range in Qinghai Province, northwest China.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Binzhou

Binzhou, formerly Putai, is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China.

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Bo Prefecture (Shandong)

Bozhou or Bo Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China, centering on modern Liaocheng, Shandong, China.

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Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay is one of the three major bays of the Bohai Sea, the northwestern and innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea.

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Bohai Sea

The Bohai Sea is a gulf/inland sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China.

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Book of Han

The Book of Han is a history of China finished in 111 CE, covering the Western, or Former Han dynasty from the first emperor in 206 BCE to the fall of Wang Mang in 23 CE.

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Book of Song

The Book of Song (Sòng Shū) is a historical text of the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties of China.

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Brackish water

Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.

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Burmese language

Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic group.

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Chang'an

Chang'an is the traditional name of Xi'an.

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Chanyuan Treaty

The Chanyuan Treaty was signed between the Northern Song dynasty and the Liao dynasty in 1005, and marked a pivotal point in Chinese history and in the relations between the two dynasties.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese giant salamander

The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world.

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Chinese mythology

Chinese mythology is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China.

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Chinese paddlefish

The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius;: literal translation: "white sturgeon"), also known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China.

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Chinese pond turtle

Mauremys reevesii, commonly known as the Chinese pond turtle, the Chinese three-keeled pond turtle, or Reeves' turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae, a family which was formerly called Bataguridae.

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Chinese softshell turtle

The Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) is a species of softshell turtle that is native to mainland China (Inner Mongolia to Guangxi, including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, with records of escapees—some of which have established introduced populations—in a wide range of other Asian countries, as well as Spain, Brazil and Hawaii.

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Chinese units of measurement

Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese.

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Classical planet

A classical planet is an astronomical object that is visible to the naked eye and moves across the sky and its backdrop of fixed stars (the common stars which seem still in contrast to the planets).

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Cobitidae

Cobitidae, also known as the True loaches, is a family of Old World freshwater fish.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. Yellow River and Colorado River are drainage basins of the Pacific Ocean.

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Commercial Press

The Commercial Press is the first modern publishing organization in China.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.

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Cradle of civilization

A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations.

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Cyprinidae

Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others.

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Dabry's sturgeon

Dabry's sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus), also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, Changjiang sturgeon and river sturgeon, is a species of fish in the sturgeon family, Acipenseridae.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Datong River

The Datong River, known as the Julak Chu (Tibetan: འཇུ་ལག་ཆུ་) in Amdo Tibetan, is a river of Qinghai in the Yellow River basin.

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Dawen River

Dawen River is a river in Shandong Province, China. Yellow River and Dawen River are rivers of Shandong.

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Daxia River

The Daxia River or Sangchu is a tributary of the Yellow River in southern Gansu province in China's west. Yellow River and Daxia River are rivers of Gansu.

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Deposition (geology)

Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass.

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Dezhou

Dezhou is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China.

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Dongying

Dongying, a prefecture-level city, lies on the northern (Bohai Sea) coast of Shandong province, People's Republic of China.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Duan Ning

Duan Ning (died November 8, 928?Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 276.Academia Sinica.), né Duan Mingyuan (段明遠), known as Li Shaoqin (李紹欽) during the reign of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang (Li Cunxu), was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Later Liang and Later Tang states.

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Emperor Renzong of Song

Emperor Renzong of Song (30 May 1010 – 30 April 1063), personal name Zhao Zhen, was the fourth emperor of the Northern Song dynasty of China.

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Emperor Shenzong of Song

The Emperor Shenzong of Song (25 May 1048 – 1 April 1085), personal name Zhao Xu, was the sixth emperor of the Song dynasty of China.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Euryhaline

Euryhaline organisms are able to adapt to a wide range of salinities.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fen River

The Fen River drains the center of Shanxi Province, China. Yellow River and Fen River are rivers of Shanxi.

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Fengyang County

Fengyang County is a county in north-central Anhui Province, China.

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Fish migration

Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another.

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Flatfish

A flatfish is a member of the ray-finned demersal fish order Pleuronectiformes, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes.

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Flood control

Flood control (or flood mitigation, protection or alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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Gansu

Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geography of China

China has great physical diversity.

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Gobiidae

Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.

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Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Golog (Golok or Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture occupying the southeastern corner of Qinghai province, People's Republic of China.

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Gonghe County

Gonghe County, also known as Kungho, is a county of Qinghai Province, China under the administration of Hainan Prefecture.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Grand Canal (China)

The Grand Canal is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.

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Granularity

Granularity (also called graininess) is the degree to which a material or system is composed of distinguishable pieces, "granules" or "grains" (metaphorically).

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Guanzhong

Guanzhong (formerly romanised as Kwanchung) region, also known as the Guanzhong Basin, Wei River Basin, or uncommonly as the Shaanzhong region, is a historical region of China corresponding to the crescentic graben basin within present-day central Shaanxi, bounded between the Qinling Mountains in the south (known as Guanzhong's "South Mountains"), and the Huanglong Mountain, Meridian Ridge and Long Mountain ranges in the north (collectively known as its "North Mountains").

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Guide County

Guide County is a county in the east of Qinghai Province, China.

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Gyaring Lake

Gyaring Lake or Zhaling Lake is a large freshwater lake in the Yellow River catchment in China, it is in the southeast of Qinghai Province, on the border between Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

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Gymnocypris

Gymnocypris is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to China.

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Gymnodiptychus

Gymnodiptychus is a genus of cyprinid fish found in freshwater habitats in the highlands of China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

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Hai River

The Hai River (海河, lit. "Sea River"), also known as the Peiho, ("White River"), or Hai Ho, is a Chinese river connecting Beijing to Tianjin and the Bohai Sea. Yellow River and Hai River are rivers of Henan, rivers of Inner Mongolia, rivers of Shandong and rivers of Shanxi.

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.

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Han River (Hubei and Shaanxi)

The Han River, also known by its Chinese names Hanshui (汉水) and Han Jiang (汉江), is a major river in Central China. Yellow River and Han River (Hubei and Shaanxi) are rivers of Shaanxi.

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Hangu Pass

Hangu Pass or Hanguguan is a pass separating the upper Yellow River and Wei valleys—the cradle of Chinese civilization and seat of its longtime capital Xi'an—from the fertile North China Plain.

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Hebei

Hebei is a province in North China.

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Hebo

Hebo, also known as Bingyi (冰夷), is the god of the Yellow River (Huang He).

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Henan

Henan is an inland province of China.

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Hetao

Hetao is a C-shaped region in northwestern China consisting of a collection of flood plains stretching from the banks of the northern half of the Ordos Loop, a large northerly rectangular bend of the Yellow River, that forms the river's entire middle section.

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Heze

Heze, formerly known as Caozhou, is the westernmost prefecture-level city in Shandong province, China, bordering Jining to the east and the provinces of Henan and Anhui to the west and south respectively.

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History of China

The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.

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Hongze Lake

Hongze Lake, previously known as Lake Hungtze or Hung-tse, is the fifth-largest freshwater lake in China.

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Huai River

The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of. Yellow River and Huai River are rivers of Henan.

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Huangshui River

The Huangshui River, Huang Shui, or Tsong Chu is a river in Qinghai and Gansu, China. Yellow River and Huangshui River are rivers of Qinghai.

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Huayuankou, Henan

Huayuankou is a town in Huiji District, used to be a ferry of the Yellow River in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

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Hukou Waterfall

The Hukou Waterfall, is the largest waterfall on the Yellow River, the second largest waterfall in China (after the Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou), and the world's largest yellow waterfall.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Ice jam

Ice jams occur when a topographic feature of the river causes floating river ice to accumulate and impede further progress downstream with the river current.

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Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Jainca County

Jainca County, Chentsa County or Jainzha County is a county in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China, to Tibetans in the area known as Malho Prefecture, part of Amdo.

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Jimo, Qingdao

Jimo District, formerly Jimo City, is a District of Qingdao, Shandong.

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Jin Chinese

Jin is a group of Chinese linguistic varieties spoken by roughly 48 million people in northern China, including most of Shanxi province, much of central Inner Mongolia, and adjoining areas in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces.

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Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 1115 and 1234 founded by Emperor Taizu (first).

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Jinan

Jinan is the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China.

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Jinan Yellow River Bridge

The Jinan Yellow River Bridge, also known as the Jinan Yellow River Highway Bridge, is a cable-stayed road bridge across the Yellow River in the city of Jinan, Shandong Province, China.

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Jining

Jining is a former capital of Shandong.

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Jiyuan

Jiyuan is a sub-prefecture-level city in northwestern Henan province, People's Republic of China.

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Ju Shou

Ju Shou (died November 200) was an adviser serving under the warlord Yuan Shao during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.

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Kaifeng

Kaifeng is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China.

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Kaluga (fish)

The kaluga (Huso dauricus), also known as the river beluga, is a large predatory sturgeon found in the Amur River basin.

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Kangxi Emperor

The Kangxi Emperor (4 May 165420 December 1722), also known by his temple name Emperor Shengzu of Qing, personal name Xuanye, was the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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Kenli, Dongying

Kenli District is a district of the city of Dongying, in northern Shandong province.

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Kuafu

Kuafu is a giant in Chinese mythology who wished to capture the Sun.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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Langya Commandery

Langya Commandery (郡) was a commandery in historical China from Qin dynasty to Tang dynasty, located in present-day southeast Shandong and northeast Jiangsu.

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Lanzhou

Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in northwestern China.

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Lateolabrax

Lateolabrax is a genus of commercially important fishes known as the Asian seabasses.

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Later Liang (Five Dynasties)

Liang, known in historiography as the Later Liang (1 June 907 – 19 November 923) or the Zhu Liang, was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Later Tang

Tang, known in historiography as the Later Tang, was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China and the second of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history.

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Laxiwa Dam

The Laxiwa Dam is an arch dam on the Yellow River in Qinghai Province, northwest China.

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Levee

A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.

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Lhasa Tibetan

Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.

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Li Sizhong (ichthyologist)

Li Sizhong (Chinese: 李思忠; Wade–Giles: Li Sze-Chung; February 19, 1921 – January 11, 2009) was an ichthyologist with the Institute of Zoology (中国科学院动物研究所) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Li Zicheng

Li Zicheng (22 September 1606 – 1645), born Li Hongji, also known by his nickname, the Dashing King, was a Chinese peasant rebel leader who helped overthrow the Ming dynasty in April 1644 and ruled over northern China briefly as the Yongchang Emperor of the short-lived Shun dynasty before his death a year later.

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Liao dynasty

The Liao dynasty (Khitan: Mos Jælud), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur), officially the Great Liao, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people.

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Liaocheng

Liaocheng, is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong province, China.

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Lijiaxia Dam

The Lijiaxia Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Yellow River in Jainca County, Qinghai Province, China.

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List of river systems by length

This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth.

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List of rivers of China

Rivers that flow through China are as follows.

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Liujiaxia Dam

The Liujiaxia Dam is a major hydroelectric dam on the upper Yellow River, in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture of China's Gansu Province.

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Loess

A loess (from Löss) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.

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Loess Plateau

The Chinese Loess Plateau, or simply the Loess Plateau, is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.

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Longyang, Baoshan

Longyang District is a district of the city of Baoshan, Yunnan province, China.

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Longyangxia Dam

The Longyangxia Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam at the entrance of the Longyangxia canyon on the Yellow River in Gonghe County, Qinghai Province, China.

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Luo River (Henan)

The Luo River is a tributary of the Yellow River in China. Yellow River and Luo River (Henan) are rivers of Henan and rivers of Shaanxi.

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Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge

The Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge is a railway bridge across the Yellow River in Jinan, Shandong, China, built in the early 20th century.

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Luoyang

Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province.

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Maerdang Dam

The Maerdang Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam currently under construction on the upper Yellow River in Maqên County, Qinghai Province, China.

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Maqên County

Maqên or Maqin County is a county of Qinghai Province, China.

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Maqu County

Maqu County is a county of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu province of China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the east and southeast, and Qinghai to the southwest, west and northwest.

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Marine geology

Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor.

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Mekong

The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

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Ming Ancestors Mausoleum

The Ming Ancestors Mausoleum, Ming Ancestor Tomb, or Zuling Tomb was the first imperial mausoleum complex of the Ming dynasty, constructed at a geomantically advantageous site near the inlet of the Huai River into the west side of Hongze Lake in present-day Xuyi County, Huai'an Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, China.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Mizo language

Mizo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, where it is the official language and lingua franca.

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Mongolian language

Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.

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Mongolian redfin

The Mongolian redfin (Chanodichthys mongolicus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Chanodichthys.

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Mount Tai

Mount Tai is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an.

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National Central Library

The National Central Library (NCL) is the national library of Taiwan, located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei.

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Nemacheilidae

The Nemacheilidae, or stone loaches, are a family of cypriniform fishes that inhabit stream environments, mostly in Eurasia, with one genus, Afronemacheilus found in Africa.

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Ngoring Lake

Ngoring Lake or Ngoreng Lake or Eling Lake is a large freshwater lake in the Yellow River catchment, it is in the southeast of Qinghai Province.The name of lake means "Long Blue Lake" in Tibetan language.

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Nian Rebellion

The Nian Rebellion was an insurrection against the Qing dynasty in northern China from 1851 to 1868, contemporaneously with the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) in southern China.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Ningxia

Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China.

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North China Plain

The North China Plain is a large-scale downfaulted rift basin formed in the late Paleogene and Neogene and then modified by the deposits of the Yellow River.

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North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power

The North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU) is a provincial public university in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

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Northern snakehead

The northern snakehead (Channa argus) is a species of snakehead fish native to temperate East Asia, in China, Russia, North Korea, and South Korea.

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Old Chinese

Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.

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Old Turkic

Old Siberian Turkic, generally known as East Old Turkic and often shortened to Old Turkic, was a Siberian Turkic language spoken around East Turkistan and Mongolia.

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Ordos Plateau

The Ordos Plateau, also known as the Ordos Basin or simply the Ordos, is a highland sedimentary basin in parts of most Northern China with an elevation of, and consisting mostly of land enclosed by the Ordos Loop, a large northerly rectangular bend of the Yellow River.

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Orkhon inscriptions

The Orkhon inscriptions (also known as the Orhon inscriptions, Orhun inscriptions, Khöshöö Tsaidam monuments (also spelled Khoshoo Tsaidam, Koshu-Tsaidam or Höshöö Caidam), or Kul Tigin steles (p)) are two memorial installations erected by the Göktürks written in the Old Turkic alphabet in the early 8th century in the Orkhon Valley in what is modern-day Mongolia.

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Pan Jixun

Pan Jixun (1521–1595), courtesy name Shiliang and pseudonym Yinchuan, was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat and hydrologist of the Ming dynasty.

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Path of least resistance

The path of least resistance is the physical or metaphorical pathway that provides the least resistance to forward motion by a given object or entity, among a set of alternative paths.

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Pei Songzhi

Pei Songzhi (372–451), courtesy name Shiqi, was a Chinese historian and politician who lived in the late Eastern Jin dynasty and the Liu Song dynasty.

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Pianguan County

Pianguan County is a county in the northwest of Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest.

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Platypharodon extremus

Platypharodon extremus is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the upper Yellow River basin in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau of China.

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Polder

A polder is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes.

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Predatory carp

The predatory carp (Chanodichthys erythropterus), also known as the redfin culter or skygazer, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Chanodichthys.

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Protosalanx

Protosalanx is a small genus of icefishes that are native to China, Korea and Vietnam where they primarily inhabit coastal waters and nearby fresh waters.

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Provinces of China

Provinces (p) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Puyang

Puyang is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Henan province, People's Republic of China.

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Qi (state)

Qi, or Ch'i in Wade–Giles romanization, was a regional state of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, whose rulers held titles of Hou (侯), then Gong, before declaring themselves independent Kings.

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Qilin

The qilin is a legendary hooved chimerical creature that appears in Chinese mythology, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler.

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Qin (state)

Qin (or Ch'in) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Qin dynasty

The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China.

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Qin River (Shanxi)

The Qin River is a tributary of the Yellow River in southeast Shanxi, China. Yellow River and Qin River (Shanxi) are rivers of Henan and rivers of Shanxi.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Qinghai

Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.

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Qingshui River (Guizhou)

The Qingshui River is a tributary of the Wu River in Guizhou Province, China.

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Qingtong

Qingtong is a township-level division of Lingshou County, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.

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Qingtongxia

Qingtongxia (Xiao'erjing: ٿٍْ‌طْوثِيَا شِ) is a city in north-central Ningxia, China.

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Red River

Red River usually refers to one of the following.

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Republic of China calendar

The Republic of China calendar, often shortened to the ROC calendar or the Minguo calendar, is a calendar used in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu.

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Revetment

A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion.

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Salmonidae

Salmonidae (lit. "salmon-like") is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes (lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids".

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Sanjiangyuan

The Sanjiangyuan, is an area of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, China which contains the headwaters of three great rivers of Asia: the Yellow, the Yangtze, and the Mekong.

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Sanmenxia

Sanmenxia (postal: Sanmenhsia) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Henan Province, China.

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Sanmenxia Dam

The Sanmenxia Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the middle-reaches of the Yellow River near Sanmenxia Gorge on the border between Shanxi province and Henan Province, China.

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Schizopygopsis

Schizopygopsis is a genus of cyprinid fish.

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Scholar-official

The scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats, were government officials and prestigious scholars in Chinese society, forming a distinct social class.

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Shaanxi

Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China.

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Shandong

Shandong is a coastal province in East China.

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Shandong Peninsula

The Shandong (Shantung) Peninsula or Jiaodong (Chiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south.

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Shanghu

ShanghuChinese: s, p Shānghú.

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Shanxi

Shanxi is an inland province of China and is part of the North China region.

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Shen Yue

Shen Yue (441 – 1 May 513), courtesy name Xiuwen (休文), was a Chinese historian, music theorist, poet, and politician born in Huzhou, Zhejiang.

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Shuttle (weaving)

A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that carries the thread of the weft yarn while weaving with a loom.

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Si Prefecture

Sizhou, Si Prefecture, or Si Subprefecture was a zhou of imperial China variously placed in what is now Xuyi County, Jiangsu, or nearby Si County, Anhui, both in China.

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Si River

The Si River (Chinese: 泗河, pinyin: Sì Hé; formerly 泗水, pinyin: Sì Shuǐ) is a river in Shandong Province, eastern China. Yellow River and Si River are rivers of Shandong.

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Sichuan

Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Silurus lanzhouensis

Silurus lanzhouensis, the Lanzhou catfish, is a species of catfish found in Asia in the upper Yellow River, China.

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Siniperca chuatsi

Siniperca chuatsi, the mandarin fish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Sinipercidae, the Oriental perches.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.

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South–North Water Transfer Project

The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is a multidecade infrastructure mega-project in China that ultimately aims to channel 44.8 cubic kilometers (44.8 billion cubic meters) of fresh water each year from the Yangtze River in southern China to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems.

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Spring and Autumn period

The Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history lasted approximately from 770 to 481 BCE which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period.

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Stream bed

A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river (bathymetry) and is confined within a channel, or the banks (bank (geography) of the waterway.

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Stream capture

Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows down to the bed of a neighbouring stream.

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Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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Takifugu

Takifugu, also known by the Japanese name, is a genus of pufferfish with 25 species, most of which are native to salt and brackish waters of the northwest Pacific, but a few species are found in freshwater in Asia or more widely in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Tao River

Tao River, Taohe River or Lu Chu is a right tributary of China's Yellow River. Yellow River and Tao River are rivers of Gansu.

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Taoism

Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.

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Thai language

Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).

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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are characters found in Chinese mythology and appear eponymously in a romantic Chinese folk tale.

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The Earth Suspended River

The Earth Suspended River (地上悬河 is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is a world-famous geographical landscape. Also known as 'the raised bed river', its bed is more than 3 metres higher than the ground. In some places, the water level is even about 10 metres higher than the ground.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Threatened species

A threatened species is any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future.

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Tian

Tian (天) is one of the oldest Chinese terms for heaven and a key concept in Chinese mythology, philosophy, and religion.

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Tianjin

Tianjin is a municipality and metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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Togtoh County

Togtoh County (Mongolian) is a county of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, North China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, located on the north bank of the Yellow River at which point that great river turns out of the Ordos Loop toward the south.

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Tongguan County

Tongguan County (alternately romanized as Tungkwan) is a county in the east of Shaanxi province, China, administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Weinan.

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Triplophysa

Triplophysa is a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae found mainly in and around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China, as well as inland waters of the larger part of central Asia.

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Turtle farming

Turtle farming is the practice of raising turtles and tortoises of various species commercially.

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Turtle Taxonomy Working Group

The Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (TTWG) is an informal working group of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG).

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United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.

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University of Washington Press

The University of Washington Press is an American academic publishing house.

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Vega

Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Wang Niansun

Wang Niansun (1744–1832), courtesy name: Huaizu (懷祖) was a Chinese scholar of the Qing Dynasty.

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Wangcun, Xingyang

Wangcun is a town in Xingyang, Zhengzhou, northwest-central Henan province, China, located about northwest of downtown Xingyang.

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Wanjiazhai Dam

The Wanjiazhai Dam is a gravity dam on the Yellow River on the border of Pianguan County, Shaanxi Province (east bank) and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (west bank), China.

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Warring States period

The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.

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Water resources of China

The water resources of China are affected by both severe water shortages and severe growing population and rapid economic development as well as lax environmental oversight have increased in a large scale the water demand and pollution.

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Wei River

The Wei River is a major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. Yellow River and wei River are rivers of Gansu and rivers of Shaanxi.

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White Amur bream

The white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis) is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish, of the monotypic genus Parabramis.

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World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

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Wuchang bream

The Wuchang bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) is a species of cyprinid fish native to bodies of water throughout the Yangtze basin, China, including Liangzi Lake.

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Wuding River

The Wuding River begins in the Ordos Desert in Shaanxi Province, Inner Mongolia and flows south into loess canyons and farmland. Yellow River and Wuding River are rivers of Shaanxi.

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Wuhai

Wuhai (20pxÜqai qota, Mongolian cyrillic.Үхай хот) is a prefecture-level city and regional center in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, and is by area the smallest prefecture-level division of the region.

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Wuhan

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province of China.

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Xiandai Hanyu Cidian

Xiandai Hanyu Cidian, also known as A Dictionary of Current Chinese or Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, is an important one-volume dictionary of Standard Mandarin Chinese published by the Commercial Press, now into its 7th (2016) edition.

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Xiaolangdi Dam

The Xiaolangdi Dam is a dam in Jiyuan, Henan Province, China, and impounds the Yellow River.

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Xigu, Lanzhou

Xigu District is one of 5 districts of the prefecture-level city of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, Northwest China.

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Xin dynasty

The Xin dynasty, also known as Xin Mang in Chinese historiography, was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty which lasted from 9 to 23 AD, established by the Han dynasty consort kin Wang Mang, who usurped the throne of the Emperor Ping of Han and the infant "crown prince" Liu Ying.

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Xinghai County

Xinghai County is a county under the jurisdiction of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the east-central part of Qinghai Province, China.

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Xingyang

Xingyang is a county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, South Central China.

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Xining

Xining is the capital of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.

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Yan Shigu

Yan Shigu (581–645), formal name Yan Zhou (顏籀), but went by the courtesy name of Shigu, was a famous Chinese historian, linguist, politician, and writer of the Tang dynasty.

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Yangqu Dam

The Yanqu Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Yellow River in Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China.

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Yangtze

Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world. Yellow River and Yangtze are drainage basins of the Pacific Ocean, rivers of Qinghai and rivers of Sichuan.

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Yellow River Cantata

The Yellow River Cantata is a cantata by Chinese composer Xian Xinghai (1905–1945).

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Yellow River civilization

Stone sickle, Peiligang culture (7000–5000 BC) Yellow River civilization, Huanghe civilization or Huanghe Valley civilization, Hwan‐huou civilization is an ancient Chinese civilization that prospered in the middle and lower basin of the Yellow River.

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Yellow River Conservancy Commission

Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) is a government agency of Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China.

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Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve

The Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve (YRDNNR) is a protected area in the city of Dongying, China, which covers wetland habitats on the shore of the Bohai Sea.

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Yellow River flood

Yellow River flood may refer to.

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Yellow River management

Yellow River management, Yellow River governance or Yellow River engineering (Simplified Chinese: 黄河治理, Traditional Chinese: 黃河治理) involves constructing hydraulic engineering projects to prevent flood disasters caused by the Yellow River and to harness its water resources.

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Yellow River Map

The Yellow River Map, Scheme, or Diagram, also known by its Chinese name as the Hetu, is an ancient Chinese diagram that appears in myths concerning the invention of writing by Cangjie and other culture heroes.

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Yellow River Piano Concerto

The Yellow River Piano Concerto is a piano concerto arranged by a collaboration between Chinese composers, including Yin Chengzong and Chu Wanghua, and based on the Yellow River Cantata by composer Xian Xinghai.

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Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea, also known as 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.

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Yinchuan

Yinchuan is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, and was the capital of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty.

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Yinchuan Plain

Yinchuan Plain, also called the Yinchuan–Wuzhong Plain or Xitao Plain (西套平原) or Ningxia Plain (宁夏平原), is a plain located in the north central part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.

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Yongjing County

Yongjing (Xiao'erjing: ﻳْﻮ دٍ ﺷِﯿًﺎْ) is a county in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in China's Gansu Province.

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Yongle Emperor

The Yongle Emperor (2 May 136012 August 1424), personal name Zhu Di, was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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Yuan Shao

Yuan Shao (袁紹,; died 28 June 202), courtesy name Benchu (本初), was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty.

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Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (retranscribed into Tibetan as), also transliterated as Yüxü or Yulshul, is an autonomous prefecture of Southwestern Qinghai Province, China.

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Zhang Qian

Zhang Qian (died c. 114 BC) was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and politician who served as an imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the late 2nd century BC during the Western Han dynasty.

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Zhang River

The Zhang River is a tributary of the Wei River in China. Yellow River and Zhang River are rivers of Henan and rivers of Shanxi.

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Zheng He

Zheng He (also romanized Cheng Ho; 1371–1433/1435) was a Chinese fleet admiral, explorer, diplomat, and bureaucrat during the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou is the capital and largest city of Henan Province in the central part of the People's Republic of China. Located in northern Henan, it is one of the National Central Cities in China, and serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational center of the province. The Zhengzhou metropolitan area (including Zhengzhou and Kaifeng) is the core area of the Central Plains Economic Zone.

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Zhongning County

Zhongning County is a county under the administration of Zhongwei city in west-central Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest.

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Zhongshan Bridge

The Zhongshan Bridge is a steel truss bridge over the Yellow River in Lanzhou.

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Zhongyuan

Zhongyuan, the Central Plain(s), also known as Zhongtu (lit. 'central land') and Zhongzhou (lit. 'central region'), commonly refers to the part of the North China Plain surrounding the lower and middle reaches of the Yellow River, centered on the region between Luoyang and Kaifeng.

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Zhuanglang River

The Zhuanglang River is a river in the central part of Gansu Province, China. Yellow River and Zhuanglang River are rivers of Gansu.

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Zibo

Zibo is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, China.

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Zoigê County

Zoigê County or Ruo'ergai County is a county of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China, bordering Gansu to the north.

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Zoigê Marsh

The Zoigê Marsh, also known as the Ruo'ergai Marsh or the Songpan Grasslands, is located in the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau and forms the largest high-altitude marsh area in the world.

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Zouyu

Zouyu, also called zouwu (騶吾) or zouya (騶牙), is a legendary creature mentioned in old Chinese literature.

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1034 Yellow River flood

The 1034 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster along China's Yellow River originating in a burst fascine following heavy rainfall at Henglong in the territory of the Northern Song.

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1344 Yellow River flood

The 1344 Yellow River flood was a major natural disaster during the Yuan dynasty of Imperial China.

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1391 Yellow River flood

The 1391 Yellow River flood was a major natural disaster during the early Ming dynasty in China.

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1494 Yellow River flood

The 1494 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in China during the Ming dynasty.

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1642 Yellow River flood

The 1642 Yellow River flood or Kaifeng flood was a man-made disaster in October, 1642, that principally affected Kaifeng and Xuzhou.

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1851–1855 Yellow River floods

The 18511855 Yellow River floods were a series of natural disasters along the Yellow River in China, culminating in the 1855 channel change event.

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1887 Yellow River flood

The 1887 Yellow River flood in Qing China began in September 1887 and killed at least 930,000 people.

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1897 Yellow River flood

The 1897 Yellow River flood was a major natural disaster during the late Qing dynasty in China.

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1931 China floods

The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, and eventually culminated in a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931.

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1938 Yellow River flood

The 1938 Yellow River flood was a man-made flood from June 1938 to January 1947 created by the intentional destruction of levees on the Yellow River in Huayuankou, Henan by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River

Also known as 1526 Yellow River flood, 1534 Yellow River flood, 1558 Yellow River flood, 1587 Yellow River flood, Ah-urh-tan, China's Sorrow, Dams on the Yellow River, History of the Yellow River, Hoang Ho, Hoang-Ho, Huang He, Huang He River, Huang Ho, Huang River, Huang-ho, Huanghe, Huanghe River, Huangho, Huanhe, Hwang Ho, Hwang-Ho, Pollution of the Yellow River, Scourge of the Sons of Han, The Yellow River, Yellow River (China), Yellow River Valley, Yellow River delta, Yellow River, China, Zhou Liu, .

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