Note: The Yellow River originates from the Bayan Kara Mountains in Qinghai Province, China, flows through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces, and finally flows into the Bohai Sea in Kenli County, Dongying City, Shandong Province.

The map of the Yangtze River Basin is shown in the following figure:

Note: The Yangtze River originates in Tanggula, Qinghai, and finally joins the East China Sea near Chongming Island in Shanghai.

The main stream of the Yangtze River runs through central China from west to east, passing through Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai1/provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and hundreds of tributaries extend to Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Fujian.

Extended data The total length of the Yangtze River is customarily called 6397 kilometers. Yichang, the main stream of the Yangtze River, is upstream, with a total length of 4,504 kilometers and a drainage area of 6,543,800 square kilometers.

Among them, Zhimenda to Yibin is called Jinsha River Basin, with a total length of 3,464 kilometers. Yibin-Yichang reach is called Chuanjiang, with a length of 1040 km. Yichang to Hukou is the middle reaches, with a total length of 955 kilometers and a drainage area of 680,000 square kilometers. Hukou to the Yangtze River estuary is the downstream, with a length of 938 kilometers and a drainage area of 6,543,800 square kilometers.

The Yellow River is a big river in the north of China, with a total length of about 5,464 kilometers and a drainage area of about 752,443 square kilometers. The fifth longest river in the world and the second longest river in China. The Yellow River is the most important birthplace of Chinese civilization. People in China call it "Mother River".