Yangzi Jiang
English
Proper noun
Yangzi Jiang
- Synonym of Yangtze: A major river in China, the third-longest river in the world
- 1979, Price, Ronald Francis, Education in Modern China, Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, OCLC 492014826, page 93:
- The most important inland water transport takes place along three great rivers, the Xi-jiang (West River) by Guangzhou (Canton); the Yangzi Jiang, which links Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing (Chungking); and the Songhua Jiang (Sungari) which passes through Ha’erbin (Harbin) in the north-east.
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French
Alternative forms
- Yang-Tsze-Kiang (obsolete)
- Yang Tse Kiang (dated)
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