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The Yangtze River, the longest in China, originates from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and flows eastwards through the middle of
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China and empties into the East China Sea. With a drainage area of 1.8 million square kilometers, its overall length is 6,300 kilometers,
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third in the world after the Amazon of South America and the Nile of Africa.
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The Yellow River, the second longest river in China, originates also from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and flows eastwards through
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north China and empties into the Bohai Sea. Its overall length is 5,500 kilometers, with a drainage area of more than 750,000 square
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kilometers. Being the birthplace of the Chinese, the Yellow River is always called the ¡Mother River¡ of China.