List of rivers of China

This incomplete list of rivers that flow through China is organized according to the body of water into which each river empties, beginning with the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast, moving clockwise on a map and ending with the Arctic Ocean.

Sea of Okhotsk

Amur River basin

Sea of Japan

Bohai Sea

  • Anzi River (鞍子河)
  • Fuzhou River (复州河)
  • Daliao River (大辽河)
Liao River Basin
  • Liao (辽河)
  • 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)
Wei River Basin
Yellow River Basin
  • Yellow River (Huang He) (黃河)
  • 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

Huai River basin

East China Sea

Han River Basin of Hubei, southern Shaanxi and southwestern Henan
Lake Dongting and the Lishui, Yuan, Zi, Xiang and Miluo Rivers of Hunan.
Wu River of Guizhou
Jialing River Basin of Chongqing, eastern Sichuan and southern Gansu
Min River of central Sichuan
Yalong River of western Sichuan and southern Qinghai

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South China Sea

Pearl River Basin
Red River (Asia) watershed
Lancang (Mekong) River watershed

From Hainan Island

Nandu River (map), Hainan Province

Andaman Sea

  • Nu River (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 (Myanmar)

Bay of Bengal

Map of the Ganges (yellow), Brahmaputra (violet), and Meghna (green) drainage basins.

Arabian Sea

  • Sênggê Zangbo (སེང་གེ།་གཙང་པོ, 狮泉河) / Indus River
    • Panjnad River (Pakistan)
      • Langqên Zangbo (གླང་ཆེན་གཙང་པོ, 象泉河) / Sutlej River

Arctic Ocean

Ob-Irtysh watershed
  • Ob River (Russia)
    • Irtysh (额尔齐斯河)
      • Bieliezeke River (别列则克河)
      • Haba River (哈巴河)
      • Burqin River (布尔津河)
      • Kala Irtysh River (喀拉额尔齐斯河)

Endorheic basins

Dzungarian Basin

Ili Basin

Ili Basin
  • Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan)
    • Ili river
      • Kax River (喀什河; also known as the Kash River)
      • Tekes River (特克斯河)

Juyan Lake Basin

  • Ejin River

Lake Alakol

Qaidam Basin

Detailed US Army maps of Qaidam, c. 1975. (Names given in Wade-Giles romanization.)

Tarim Basin

Tarim Basin

Canals

See also

References

    • Berman, Lex, ed. (2011). "China River Basins". WorldMap. Harvard University. Interactive map with China's river basins, showing river names in Chinese.
    • Table of rivers in China with Chinese names and useful data (dead link 01:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC))
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