Yellow River

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The Yellow River (Chinese:Huang He, or older style Hwang Ho) is the seventh-longest river in the world, and the second longest in China after the Yangtse, flowing across northern China to enter the Bohai Gulf. It is 3,395 miles long (5,464 km), rising in the mountains of Qinghai province and flowing through Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces. The Yellow River is nicknamed 'China's Sorrow' for its tendency towards catastrophic floods; these are caused by the huge amounts of silt carried by the river from the Loess plateau of north-western China and which are deposited on the river bed, making it shallower. The name Yellow River derives from the characteristic colour of its water, caused by the silt.