Gan River
| Gan River | |
|---|---|
Lake Poyang | |
| Length | 599 km (372 mi) |
| Basin size | 103,074 km2 (39,797 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 2,865 m3/s (101,200 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Gong River, Zhang River |
| • right | Mei River |
The Gan River (
Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan.[1]
Two similarly sized rivers, the Gong River which is the southern tributary and the Mei River from the north combine in Yudu County, Jiangxi, to form the Gan. The Gan River flows 527 km (327 mi) before splitting into distributaries just north of Nanchang. The longest of these, the North Branch, is several times longer than the other distributaries at 72 km (45 mi). The Gan River is the major geographical feature of Jiangxi, and gives its name to the Gan variety of Chinese[2] as well as the province's one-character abbreviation.[3]
The river feeds into
See also
- List of rivers in China
- 2010 South China floods
References
- ISBN 9780520948563.
- ISBN 9780313288531. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ 高考地理：中国各省份简称历来 (in Simplified Chinese). Sohu Education. 2017-07-08. Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
19、江西--地处长江中下游南岸，赣江是省内最大的河流，故简称"赣"
- ISBN 9781782000174.
External links
- . Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.