Q 01/05

Where does the Yangtze rank among the world's longest rivers?

A) First

B) Fifth

C) Tenth

D) Third

Answer · why

D) Third

Only the Nile and the Amazon are longer; it is the longest river in China.

Q 02/05

What does the Chinese name Chang Jiang literally mean?

A) Yellow River

B) Long River

C) Great Dragon

D) Blue Water

Answer · why

B) Long River

The epithet 'long' was first formally applied during the Six Dynasties period; earlier it was simply 'the River'.

Q 03/05

Where does the Yangtze rise?

A) The Himalayas of Nepal

B) The Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau

C) The Kunlun Mountains of Xinjiang

D) The Hengduan Mountains of Yunnan

Answer · why

B) The Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau

Its source is at Jari Hill, and it flows about 6,236 km to the East China Sea.

Q 04/05

Into which sea does the Yangtze empty?

A) The Yellow Sea

B) The East China Sea

C) The South China Sea

D) The Bohai Sea

Answer · why

B) The East China Sea

Its estuary carries almost 1,000 cubic kilometres of water a year.

Q 05/05

Roughly what share of China's population lives in the Yangtze basin?

A) About one-tenth

B) About half

C) About two-thirds

D) Nearly one-third

Answer · why

D) Nearly one-third

The basin covers a fifth of China's land area.