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23 longest rivers in central China

23 rivers, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The rivers

  1. 1Yangtze6,300 km
  2. 2Yellow River5,464 km
  3. 3Han (Hubei and Shaanxi)1,532 km
  4. 4Huai1,110 km
  5. 5Xiang801 km
  6. 6Zi River653 km
  7. 7Wei (Shandong and Henan)600 km
  8. 8Qin He485 km
  9. 9You Shui477 km
  10. 10Zhang466 km
  11. 11Dan443 km
  12. 12Hong River (Huai River)443 km
  13. 13Guo421 km
  14. 14Luo420 km
  15. 15Lishui388 km
  16. 16Xiao354 km
  17. 17Mi River296 km
  18. 18Wu River (Guangdong and Hunan)260 km
  19. 19Jialu256 km
  20. 20Bei255 km
  21. 21Miluo Jiang250 km
  22. 22Liuyang234 km
  23. 23Lian232 km

Length in km as Wikidata records it (P2043, the best-ranked figure). Each named river counts on its own: the river that carries the name, from its source to its mouth. Headstreams and tributaries with names of their own are rivers of their own, so the Missouri and the Mississippi are two rivers here, as are the Irtysh and the Ob (the Longest River Systems set measures such chains as one system, from the most distant source). A named section of a river is that river: the Solimões, as the Amazon’s upper course is called in Brazil, is the Amazon. Where the recorded length runs from a differently named headwater (the Congo’s from the Lualaba’s source), the course is drawn on up that headwater. Rivers under 200 km are in only when they are well known (30 or more Wikipedia editions), and a river whose mapped course covers under half its recorded length is left out. Central China: Henan, Hubei and Hunan. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

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