Gan River

The Gan River (simplified Chinese: 赣江; traditional Chinese: 贛江; pinyin: Gàn Jiāng, Gan: Kōm-kong) travels 885 km (550 mi) north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan.[1]

For the river in Inner Mongolia, see Gan River (Inner Mongolia).
Gan River
Gan River and Yuhong Pagoda in Ganzhou
Native name赣江
Location
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceJiangxi
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • location
Lake Poyang
Length885 km (550 mi)
Discharge 
 • average1,667 m3/s (58,900 cu ft/s)

It is the major geographical feature of Jiangxi, and gives its name to the Gan variety of Chinese[2] as well as the province's one-character abbreviation.[3]

The river feeds into Lake Poyang, which in turns connects with the Yangtze.[4]

Tributaries

See also
  • List of rivers in China
  • 2010 South China floods

References
  1. Carol Benedict (2011). "Chinese Tobacco Production, 1600 to 1750". Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010. University of California Press. p. 41.
  2. James Stuart Olson (1998). An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. Greenwood Press. p. 80. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  3. 高考地理：中国各省份简称历来 (in Chinese). Sohu Education. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2018-12-17. 19、江西--地处长江中下游南岸，赣江是省内最大的河流，故简称“赣”
  4. Stephen Turnbull (2002). "A Case Study of Chinese Fighting Ships". Fighting Ships of the Far East (1): China and Southeast Asia 202 BC-AD 1419. Osprey Publishing. p. 37.


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