Which city is the mouth of the Yangtze River?

The Yangtze estuary is Chongming Island, which belongs to Shanghai.

The main stream flows through Qinghai, Xizang Autonomous Region, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai * * *1provincial administrative regions (eight provinces, two cities and one district) and flows into the East China Sea east of Chongming Island, with a total length of more than 6,300 kilometers.

In the north of Shanghai, where the Yangtze River meets the sea, there are three islands: Chongming Island, Changxing Island and hengsha island. Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, is formed by alluvial sediment carried by the Yangtze River, with an area of 104 1.2 1 km2 and an altitude of 3.5-4.5 meters. Changxing Island covers an area of 88.54 square kilometers, and hengsha island covers an area of 55.74 square kilometers.

Extended data:

Division of the Yangtze River Basin

1, upstream

The main stream of the Yangtze River is in the upper reaches of Yichang City, with a length of 4504km, accounting for 70.4% of the total length of the Yangtze River, and the control basin area is 654.38+0.0000 square kilometers. Yibin, known as Jinsha River, has a total length of 3464km, with a drop of about 5 100m, accounting for 95% of the whole river drop. The riverbed is steep and the beach speed is fast, and the main tributary is Yalong River.

The total length from Yibin to Yichang is 1040km, and the main tributaries are Minjiang River and Jialing River on the north bank and Wujiang River on the south bank.

2. Right in the middle of the river

Yichang City to Hukou County is the middle reaches, with a length of 955km and a drainage area of 680,000 square kilometers. The main tributaries of this section are the Qingjiang River on the south bank, the four rivers of Hunan, Zi, Yuan and Li in the Dongting Lake system, and the five rivers of Jiangxi, Fu, Xin, Xiu and Rao in the Poyang Lake system, and the Han River on the north bank. This section is the famous Jingjiang Zhicheng to Chenglingji.

There are Songzi, Taiping, ouchi, Diaoxian (blocked), Dongting Lake and waterways on the south bank, which are the most complicated. ?

3. Downstream

Hukou County is located in the lower reaches of the estuary, with a length of 938 kilometers and an area of 654.38+200,000 square kilometers. The main tributaries are Qingyi River, Shuiyangjiang River, Taihu Lake and Chaohu Lake.

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