Yangtze River
The Yangtze River is China's greatest river and a historic transport route. On a Yangtze boat in the Xiling Gorge (Zigui County, HubeiThis is a huge river; it is over 6,000 km long, about the same as the Mississippi.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Yangtze River
- Type: Stream
- Description: longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Shanghai, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.76986° or 31° 46' 12" northLongitude
121.04664° or 121° 2' 48" eastOpen Location Code
8Q33Q29W+WMGeoNames ID
1815696Wikidata ID
Q5413Yangtze River Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Asif n Yangtze
- Afrikaans: Jangtse
- Afrikaans: Yangtze
- Albanian: Lumi Chang Jiang
- Amharic: ያንግ-ጸ ወንዝ
- Arabic: Yangtze
- Arabic: نهر تشانغ جيانغ
- Arabic: نهر يانغتسي
- Arabic: يانغتسي
- Aragonese: Río Yangtze
- 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
- 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: Dlouhá řeka
- Czech: Jang-c'-ťiang
- Czech: Jang-c'
- Czech: Jang-c’-ťiang
- Czech: Modrá řeka
- Czech: Nebeská řeka
- Czech: Ta-ťjiang
- Czech: Tchung-tchien
- Czech: Tchuo-tchuo
- Czech: Ulan-Muren
- Czech: Čchang-ťiang
- Czech: Řeka zlatých písků
- Danish: Yangtze
- Dutch: Jangtsekiang
- Dutch: Yangtze
- Eastern Mari: Янцзы
- Egyptian Arabic: نهر يانجتسى
- English: Along the Yangtze River
- English: Blue River
- English: Ch'ang Chiang
- English: Chang Jiang
- English: Chang Jiang River
- English: Changjiang
- English: Changjiang River
- English: Jiang
- English: Jiang River
- English: Kian
- English: Kiang
- English: Kiang River
- English: Kyang
- English: Kyang River
- English: Yan-tse-kian
- English: Yan-tse
- English: Yang-tse
- English: Yang-tse River
- English: Yang-tsze-kiang
- English: Yang-tsze
- English: Yang-tze
- English: Yang-tze River
- English: Yangtse River
- English: Yangtsze River
- English: Yangtze
- English: Yangtzekiang
- English: Yangzi
- English: Yangzi River
- English: Yantse Kiang
- Esperanto: Jangzio
- Estonian: Jangtse
- Faroese: Yangtze
- Fiji Hindi: Yangtze Naddi
- Finnish: Jangtse
- French: Chang Jiang
- French: Fleuve Bleu
- 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
- Hausa: Chhòng-kông
- Hebrew: יאנגצה
- Hindi: यांग्त्सीक्यांग
- Hungarian: Jangce
- Icelandic: Jangtse
- Ido: Yangcekiang
- Iloko: Karayan Yangtze
- Iloko: Yangtze
- Indonesian: Sungai Panjang
- Interlingua: Fluvio Yangtze
- Irish: An Iaing-tsí
- Irish: abhainn na hIaing-tsí
- Irish: an Abhainn Chang Jiang
- Italian: Chang Jiang
- Italian: Fiume Azzurro
- Italian: Yangtze
- Japanese: 長江
- Javanese: Kali Yangtze
- Kabiyè: Yangzi Jiang pɔɔ
- Kabyle: Asif n Yangtze
- 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: Karayan Yangtze
- Lao: ແມ່ນ້ຳແຍງຊີ
- Latin: Changjiang
- Latin: Flumen Caeruleum
- Latin: Fluvius Yangtsensis
- Latin: Fluvius Yangtzensis
- Latin: Kiang
- Latin: Kiang Fluvius
- Latvian: Jandzi
- Latvian: Čandzjana
- Lezghian: Янцзы
- Lingua Franca Nova: Rio Yangzi
- Literary Chinese: 長江
- Lithuanian: Jangdzė
- Lombard: Fium Azur
- Macedonian: Јангцекјанг
- Macedonian: Јангѕеѓанг
- Macedonian: Сина Река
- Malay: Sungai Panjang, China
- Malay: Sungai Yangtze
- Malayalam: യാംഗ്സേ കിയാംഗ് നദി
- Malayalam: യാംഗ്സ്റ്റേ കിയാംഗ് നദി
- Manipuri: ꯌꯥꯡꯓꯦ ꯇꯨꯔꯦꯜ
- Marathi: यांगत्से
- Mazanderani: یانگ تسه کیانگ
- Min Dong Chinese: Diòng-gĕ̤ng
- Min Nan Chinese: Tiông-kang
- Mingrelian: იანძი
- Mongolian: Хөх мөрөн
- Mongolian: ꯌꯥꯡꯓꯦ ꯇꯨꯔꯦꯜ
- Moroccan Arabic: يانݣ تسي
- Nauru: Yangtze
- Nepali: याङ्जे खुसि
- Newari: याङ्जे खुसि
- Newari: याङ्जे खुसी
- Northern Frisian: Jangtsekiang
- Northern Sami: Jangze
- Norwegian: Chang Jiang
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chang Jiang
- Norwegian Bokmål: Yangtze
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chang Jiang
- 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: Rio Yangtzé
- Quechua: Yangsi mayu
- Romanian: Yangtze
- Romansh: Jangtse
- Russia Buriat: Хүхэ мүрэн
- Russian: Янцзы
- Rusyn: Янцзі
- Samogitian: Jangdzė
- Scots: Yangtze
- Scots: Yangtze River
- Serbian: Јангцекјанг
- Serbo-Croatian: Jangce
- 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: แม่น้ำแยงซี
- 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
- Veps: Janczi
- Vietnamese: Trường Giang
- Walloon: Yangtzé
- Waray (Philippines): Salog 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: Dahcangzgyangh
- Chang Kiang
- Ch’ang Chiang
- Di chu
- Do-chu
- Dre Chu
- Dọc theo Trường Giang
- Jume Azzurre
- Ta-kiang
- Ta Chiang
- Yang-tse Kiang
- Yang-tzu Chiang
- Yangtsze
- Yangtze Kiang
Other Places Named Yangtze River
In the Area
Yangtze River is situated close to the localities Xingang and Dongjiutang.
Localities
Landmarks
- Sutong Changjiang DaqiaoBridge, 5 km west
- Jiangxin ShaIsland, 6 km northeast
- ChangshuPort, 9 km west
- Baimaoshabei ShuidaoChannel, 18 km east
- Tiehuang ShaIsland, 18 km west
- TaicangPort, 20 km southeast
Popular Destinations in Shanghai
Escape to a Random Place
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