Yuan River
The Yuan River, also known by its Chinese name as the Yuanjiang, is one of the four largest rivers in Hunan province in southeast-central China. It is a tributary of Yangtze River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Huangdan2060, CC0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Hunan, China
- Also known as: “Yüan Chiang”, “Yuan Kiang”, “Yüan Shui”, “Yuanjiang”, and “Yüen Kiang”
Yuan River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Hunan, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Yuan River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Yuan”
- Basque: “Yuan ibaia”
- Basque: “Yuan”
- Bulgarian: “Юандзян”
- Catalan: “riu Yuan”
- Catalan: “Riu Yuan”
- Cebuano: “Yuan Jiang (suba sa Pangmasang Republika sa Tśina)”
- Cebuano: “Yuan Jiang”
- Chinese: “沅水”
- Chinese: “沅江”
- Czech: “Jüan-ťiang”
- Danish: “Qingshui”
- Danish: “Yuanfloden”
- Danish: “Yuanjiang”
- Dutch: “Yuan River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ياوان”
- French: “Yuan Jiang”
- French: “Yuan”
- German: “Yuan Jiang”
- German: “Yuan Shui”
- German: “Yuanshui”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Γιουάν”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Yuan”
- Irish: “Abhainn Yuan”
- Italian: “Yuan Jiang”
- Japanese: “ゲン江”
- Japanese: “沅水”
- Japanese: “沅江”
- Korean: “원강”
- Korean: “위안 강”
- Korean: “위안장 강”
- Literary Chinese: “沅水”
- Lithuanian: “Juanas”
- Lithuanian: “Juanczjanas”
- Lithuanian: “Juandziangas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Juanshui”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qingshui”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Youshui”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yuan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yuanjiang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yuanshui”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yuan Jiang”
- Norwegian: “Yuan Jiang”
- Persian: “رود یوان”
- Polish: “Jüan-ciang”
- Polish: “Yuan Jiang”
- Spanish: “Rio Yuan”
- Spanish: “Río Yuan”
- Swedish: “Yuanfloden”
- Turkish: “Yuan Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Юань (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Юань”
- Vietnamese: “Nguyên Thủy”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Nguyên”
- Welsh: “Afon Yuan”
- Wu Chinese: “沅江”
- Yue Chinese: “沅水”
- Yue Chinese: “沅江”
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