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Yellow River is a noun.
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WHAT DOES YELLOW RIVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Yellow River

Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He is the second-longest river in Asia, following the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 km. Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of western China, it flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city of Dongying in Shandong province. The Yellow River basin has an east–west extent of about 1,900 kilometers and a north–south extent of about 1,100 km. Its total basin area is about 742,443 square kilometers. The Yellow River is called "the cradle of Chinese civilization", because its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. However, frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields, has also earned it the unenviable names China's Sorrow and Scourge of the Sons of Han.

Definition of Yellow River in the English dictionary

The definition of Yellow River in the dictionary is the second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km Chinese name: Hwang Ho.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE YELLOW RIVER

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Synonyms and antonyms of Yellow River in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Yellow River» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF YELLOW RIVER

Find out the translation of Yellow River to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Yellow River from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Yellow River» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黄河
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

río Amarillo
570 millions of speakers

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Yellow River
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पीली नदी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النهر الأصفر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Желтая река
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Rio Amarelo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হলুদ নদী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fleuve Jaune
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Translator English - Malay

Sungai Kuning
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Translator English - German

gelber Fluss
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

黄河
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

황하
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Translator English - Javanese

Kuning
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

sông Hoàng Hà
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மஞ்சள் நதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिवळ्या नद्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sarı Nehir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fiume Giallo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

yellow River
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жовта річка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Râul galben
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Translator English - Greek

Κίτρινο Ποτάμι
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Yellow River
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Gula floden
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Yellow River
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YELLOW RIVER»

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Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese
This is a new and revised edition, originally published by BOA Editions in 2000. "In Crossing the Yellow River, Sam Hamill remaps Chinese poetry for our time. Anyone who writes poetry, or who cares about it, must have this book.
‎2013
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Yellow River Odyssey
Bill Porter, a.k.a Red Pine, connects modern China to its past in a riveting journey down the Yellow River.
Bill Porter, 2014
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Yellow River: piano concerto
Contents: Yellow River Boatmen's Song; Ode to the Yellow River; Wrath of the Yellow River; Defend the Yellow River.
Xian Xinghai, Xinghai Xian, 2009
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The Yellow River: Water and Life
Modern efforts to comprehensively manage the Yellow River basin can be traced back to the Chihli River Commission, and later the Hua Bei River Commission, which began the first systematic monitoring of the Yellow River flow in 1922.
Tetsuya Kusuda, 2010
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Paddling Iowa: 96 Great Trips by Canoe and Kayak
A river little more than 50 miles long, the Yellow River had a disproportionate influence on Iowa's history and prehistory. After 500 A.D., it must have impressed Eastern Woodland Indians, who at its mouth constructed unique effigy mounds in  ...
Nate Hoogeveen, 2006
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Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River ...
CHAPTER 3 A comparative analysis of the hydrogeology of the Indus-Gangetic and Yellow River basins S.K. Jain1, B.R. Sharma2, A. Zahid3, M.Jin4, J.L. Shreshtha5, V. Kumar1, S.P. Rai1, J. Hu4, Y. Luo4 & D. Sharma2 1 National Institute of ...
Aditi Mukherji, Karen G. Villholth, Bharat R. Sharma, 2009
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China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society
On the dyke stood two steles, one engraved with the words: 'In 1901 and 1933 the Yellow River broke its banks here', the other commemorating the visit by Mao Zedong on 30 October 1952 to inspect the flood control works. Mao went first to ...
Cao Jinqing, 2004
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Water management in the Yellow River Basin: background, ...
Yellow River water accounts, 2000. The Yellow River basin has been part of the Chinese nation essentially since its inception and has played a key role not only in country's economic development but also in the historic and cultural identity of  ...
Giordano M. , Zhu Z. , Cai X. , Hong S. , Zhang X. , Xue Y., 2004
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Memorandum Relative to the Improvement of the Hwang-ho Or ...
The canal between Nan-wang and Lin-tsing was at one time a free streaming river , which was afterwards , in the interests of navigation , divided by locks into reaches, and burst through in 1852 by the new course of the Yellow River. From that ...
Johannes Gerardus Wybo Fijnje van Salverda, Pieter Gerard van Schermbeek, A. Visser, 1891
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Barron's How to Prepare for the AP World History Advanced ...
EARLY CHINA AND THE YELLOW RIVER The fourth river valley civilization emerged in China, along the Yellow River (or Huang Ho). The western reaches of China border on desert, and much of China's center is hilly or mountainous.
John McCannon, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «YELLOW RIVER»

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Several people rescued after car goes into Yellow River
Jenesis Sanders and her stepsister Amunique Samuels ended up in the Yellow River, when the driver of the car, a friend of their fathers, hit a slick spot from the ... «WSB Atlanta, May 15»
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At Yellow River Game Ranch Georgia Groundhog Predicts Early …
The Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn announced that the critter awoke Monday morning to a heavy overcast sky after an overnight rain. Game ranch officials ... «CBS Local, Feb 15»
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Hukou Waterfall freezes over on the Yellow River
With temperatures reaching as low as -12 degrees Celsius, half of the Hukou Waterfall on China's Yellow River has frozen over – and with spectacular results. «The Weather Network, Dec 14»
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Waterfall freezes over on the Yellow River
Tourists have been flocking to a section of China's Yellow River in far greater numbers recently as part of the Hukou Waterfall has frozen over in the incredibly ... «The Independent, Dec 14»
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6000 tires found dumped near Yellow River
When deer season started in September, a state Department of Natural Resources ranger stopped at a wooded area near the Yellow River in DeKalb County. «WXIA-TV, Sep 14»
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Did humans cause the great flooding of China's Yellow River? 3000 …
For thousands of years, nature has been blamed for the deadly floods of China's Yellow River, long known in China as the 'River of Sorrow' and 'Scourge of the ... «Daily Mail, Jun 14»
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Humans Have Been Messing With China's Yellow River for 3000 …
In China, people sometimes refer to the Yellow River as the River of Sorrow or the Scourge of the Sons of Han. The river is Asia's second-longest and is ... «Smithsonian, Jun 14»
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Dead pigs floating in Chinese river
More than 16,000 dead pigs were removed from the Huangpu river which flows into ... The pigs were found in a tributary of the Yellow River, China's second ... «The Guardian, Apr 14»
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Watch: China Drops Bombs On Icebound River To Prevent Flooding
Faced with possible flooding due to an ice-choked curve of the Yellow River, China decided to bring in the heavy artillery. Chinese authorities sent three ... «TIME, Mar 14»
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Tight-fisted driver risks his life driving across frozen Yellow river to …
Not this skinflint driver in China. He was so determined to get out of paying the fee to cross the frozen Yellow River, in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, that he just drove ... «Daily Mail, Jan 14»

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