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Yangtze River

The Yangtze River is 's greatest river and a historic transport route. This is a huge river; it is over 6,000 km long, about the same as the Mississippi.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: Longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world
  • Also known as: “Along the Yangtze River”, “Blue River”, “Ch’ang Chiang”, “Chang Jiang”, “Chang Jiang River”, “Chang Kiang”, “Changjiang”, “Changjiang River”, “Di chu”, “Do-chu”, “Dre Chu”, “Jiang”, “Jiang River”, “Kian”, “Kiang”, “Kiang River”, “Kyang”, “Kyang River”, “Ta Chiang”, “Ta-kiang”, “Yan-tse”, “Yan-tse-kian”, “Yang-tse”, “Yang-tse Kiang”, “Yang-tse River”, “Yang-tsze”, “Yang-tsze-kiang”, “Yang-tze”, “Yang-tze River”, “Yang-tzu Chiang”, “Yangtse River”, “Yangtse-chiang”, “Yangtsze”, “Yangtsze River”, “Yangtze”, “Yangtze Kiang”, “Yangtzekiang”, “Yangzi”, “Yangzi River”, and “Yantse Kiang”

Yangtze River

Latitude
31.76986° or 31° 46′ 12″ north
Longitude
121.04664° or 121° 2′ 48″ east
Open location code
8Q33Q29W+WM
Geo­Names ID
1815696
Wiki­data ID
Q5413
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Yangtze River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jangtse”
  • Afrikaans: “Yangtze”
  • Albanian: “Lumi Chang Jiang”
  • Albanian: “Lumi Jangce”
  • Amharic: “ያንግ-ጸ ወንዝ”
  • Arabic: “نهر تشانغ جيانغ”
  • Arabic: “نهر يانغتسي”
  • Arabic: “يانغتسي”
  • Aragonese: “Río Yangtze”
  • Armenian: “Յանծի”
  • Armenian: “Յանցզի”
  • Assamese: “য়াংজে নদী”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Yangtsé”
  • Asturian: “Yangtsé”
  • Awadhi: “यांग्त्सी नदी”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yanszı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yantszı”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Yangtze”
  • Bashkir: “Янцзы”
  • Basque: “Ibai Urdina”
  • Bavarian: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Belarusian: “Янцзы”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াং চি কিয়াং”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াংসে নদী”
  • Bengali: “ছাং চিয়াং নদী”
  • Bengali: “ছাং চিয়াং নদীর পাশ দিয়ে ভ্রমণ”
  • Bhojpuri: “यांगटीसीक्यांग”
  • Bhojpuri: “यांग्त्सी नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Jangce”
  • Bosnian: “Yangtze”
  • Breton: “Yangtze”
  • Bulgarian: “Яндзъ”
  • Burmese: “ယန်ဇီမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Iang-Tsé”
  • Cebuano: “Yangtze River”
  • Central Bikol: “Yangtze”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری یانگتسی”
  • Chechen: “Янцзы”
  • Chinese: “Tiông-kang”
  • Chinese: “扬子江”
  • Chinese: “揚子江”
  • Chinese: “江”
  • Chinese: “長江”
  • Chinese: “长江”
  • Chinese: “长江沿线”
  • Cornish: “Dowr Yangtze”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Yañtszı”
  • Croatian: “Jangce”
  • Czech: “Čchang-ťiang”
  • Czech: “Dlouhá řeka”
  • Czech: “Jang-c‘-ťiang”
  • Czech: “Jang-c’-ťiang”
  • Czech: “Jang-c‘”
  • Czech: “Modrá řeka”
  • Czech: “Nebeská řeka”
  • Czech: “Ta-ťjiang”
  • Danish: “Yangtze”
  • Dutch: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Dutch: “Yangtze”
  • Eastern Mari: “Янцзы”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر يانجتسى”
  • Esperanto: “Jangzio”
  • Estonian: “Jangtse”
  • Faroese: “Yangtze”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yangtze Naddi”
  • Fijian: “Yangtze”
  • Finnish: “Jangtse”
  • French: “Chang Jiang”
  • French: “Fleuve Bleu”
  • French: “Ian tzi Tzian”
  • French: “Rivière Ian tzi Tzian”
  • French: “Rivière Ian tzi”
  • French: “Yang Tsé Kiang”
  • French: “Yangtsé”
  • French: “Yangtze”
  • French: “Yangzi Jiang”
  • Galician: “Río Yangtzé”
  • Gan Chinese: “長江”
  • Georgian: “იანძი”
  • German: “Chang Jiang”
  • German: “Cháng Jiāng”
  • German: “Jangtse”
  • German: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Greek: “Γιανγκτσέ”
  • Greek: “Τσανγκτζιάνγκ”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Yangtze”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Yangzi Jiang”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chhòng-kông”
  • Hebrew: “יאנגצה”
  • Hindi: “यांग्त्सीक्यांग”
  • Hungarian: “Jangce”
  • Icelandic: “Jangtse”
  • Ido: “Yangcekiang”
  • Iloko: “Karayan Yangtze”
  • Iloko: “Yangtze”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Panjang”
  • Interlingua: “Fluvio Yangtze”
  • Irish: “abhainn na hIaing-tsí”
  • Irish: “an Abhainn Chang Jiang”
  • Irish: “An Iaing-tsí”
  • Italian: “Chang Jiang”
  • Italian: “Fiume Azzurro”
  • Italian: “Yangtze”
  • Japanese: “揚子江”
  • Japanese: “長江”
  • Javanese: “Kali Yangtze”
  • Kabiyè: “Yangzi Jiang pɔɔ”
  • Kabyle: “Asif n Yangtze”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yanczı (dárya)”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yanczı”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Янцзы”
  • Kazakh: “Янцзы”
  • Kirghiz: “Янцзы”
  • Korean: “양자강”
  • Korean: “양쯔 강”
  • Korean: “장강”
  • Korean: “창 강”
  • Korean: “창장 강”
  • Kurdish: “Yangtsê”
  • Ladin: “Yangtze”
  • Lao: “ແມ່ນ້ຳແຍງຊີ”
  • Latin: “Changjiang”
  • Latin: “Flumen Caeruleum”
  • Latin: “Fluvius Yangtsensis”
  • Latin: “Fluvius Yangtzensis”
  • Latin: “Kiang Fluvius”
  • Latin: “Kiang”
  • Latvian: “Čandzjana”
  • Latvian: “Jandzi”
  • Lezghian: “Янцзы”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Yangzi”
  • Literary Chinese: “長江”
  • Lithuanian: “Jangdzė”
  • Lombard: “Fium Azur”
  • Low German: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chang Jiang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jangtse”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yang-Tsé-Kiang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yangtsé”
  • Macedonian: “Јангѕеѓанг”
  • Macedonian: “Јангцекјанг”
  • Macedonian: “Сина Река”
  • Malay: “Sungai Panjang, China”
  • Malay: “Sungai Yangtze”
  • Malayalam: “യാംഗ്‌സേ കിയാംഗ് നദി”
  • Malayalam: “യാംഗ്‌സ്റ്റേ കിയാംഗ് നദി”
  • Manchu: “ᡠᠯᠠ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯌꯥꯡꯓꯦ ꯇꯨꯔꯦꯜ”
  • Marathi: “यांगत्से”
  • Mazanderani: “یانگ تسه کیانگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Diòng-gĕ̤ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiông-kang”
  • Mingrelian: “იანძი”
  • Mongolian: “Хөх мөрөн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “يانݣ تسي”
  • Nauru: “Yangtze”
  • Nepali: “याङ्त्से नदी”
  • Newari: “याङ्जे खुसि”
  • Newari: “याङ्जे खुसी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Northern Sami: “Jangtse”
  • Northern Sami: “Jangze”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chang Jiang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yangtze”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chang Jiang”
  • Norwegian: “Yangtze”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Yangtze”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yangzijiang”
  • Ossetian: “Янцзы”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਂਗਤਸੀ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਂਗਤਸੇ ਨਦੀ”
  • Persian: “رود یانگ‌تسه”
  • Persian: “یانگ‌تسه”
  • Piemontese: “Yangtze”
  • Polish: “Jangcy”
  • Portuguese: “Iangtsé”
  • Portuguese: “Iangtzé”
  • Portuguese: “Iansequião”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Azul”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Yangtzé”
  • Portuguese: “Yang Tsé”
  • Portuguese: “Yang-tsé”
  • Portuguese: “Yangtsé”
  • Portuguese: “Yangtze”
  • Portuguese: “Yangtzé”
  • Quechua: “Yangsi mayu”
  • Romanian: “Râul Albastru”
  • Romanian: “Yangtze”
  • Romanian: “Yangzi Jiang”
  • Romansh: “Jangtse”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хүхэ мүрэн”
  • Russian: “Голубая река”
  • Russian: “Длинная река”
  • Russian: “Чанцзян”
  • Russian: “Ян-цзы-цзян”
  • Russian: “Янтсекианг”
  • Russian: “Янцзы”
  • Russian: “Янцзыцзян”
  • Rusyn: “Янцзі”
  • Samogitian: “Jangdzė”
  • Scots: “Yangtze River”
  • Scots: “Yangtze”
  • Serbian: “Јангце”
  • Serbian: “Јангцекјанг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jangce”
  • Sindhi: “يانگزي”
  • Sinhala: “යැංසි ගඟ”
  • Slovak: “Jang-c’-ťiang”
  • Slovenian: “Jangce”
  • Slovenian: “Jangcekjang”
  • Slovenian: “Modra reka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یانقتسه چایی”
  • Spanish: “Yangtse”
  • Spanish: “Yangtsé”
  • Swahili: “Yangtze”
  • Swedish: “Yangtze”
  • Swiss German: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Yangtze”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Янгтсе”
  • Tajik: “Янгтсе”
  • Tamil: “யாங்சி ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “யாங்சே”
  • Tatar: “Янцзы”
  • Telugu: “యాంగ్జీ నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำฉางเจียง”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำแยงซี”
  • Thai: “แยงซี”
  • Tibetan: “འབྲི་ཆུ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Jangtsekiang”
  • Turkish: “Yangtze”
  • Turkmen: “Ýanszy”
  • Uighur: “چاڭجياڭ دەرياسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Янцзи”
  • Urdu: “دریائے یانگتسی”
  • Urdu: “دریائے یانگزے”
  • Uzbek: “Yanszi”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Axuro”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Azuro”
  • Veps: “Janczi”
  • Vietnamese: “Dọc theo Trường Giang”
  • Vietnamese: “Dương Tử”
  • Vietnamese: “Trường Giang”
  • Walloon: “Yangtzé”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Yangtze”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yangtze”
  • Welsh: “Afon Yangtze”
  • Welsh: “Chang Jiang”
  • Welsh: “Yangtze”
  • Welsh: “Yangzi”
  • Western Frisian: “Jangtse”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے یانگزے”
  • Western Panjabi: “یانگسی دریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “长江”
  • Yakut: “Янцзы”
  • Yiddish: “יאנגצע”
  • Yue Chinese: “大江”
  • Yue Chinese: “長江”
  • Zhuang: “Dah Cangzgyangh”
  • Zhuang: “Dahcangzgyangh”
  • “Jangdzė”
  • “Jume Azzurre”
  • “nasin telo Jansi”
  • “यांग्त्सी नदी”

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