Record #00185Nature archive
Longest River with Its Entire Drainage System in One Country
Guinness World Records lists China's Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) as the longest river whose entire drainage system lies within a single country, using a record length of 6,380 kilometres.
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6,380km
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- ; rising on the -Tibetan Plateau and flowing into the ·
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Overview
Archive NoteGuinness World Records credits the Chang Jiang as the longest river with its entire drainage system in one country.
The Guinness record page gives a length of 6,380 kilometres and notes that the river flows east across China into the East China Sea.
This figure is retained separately from the approximately 6,300-kilometre measurement commonly used in Chinese official sources.
Record history
1 Milestones6,380 km
China; rising on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and flowing into the East China Sea
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