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Eastern Yellow Sea Drainages
The Eastern Yellow Sea Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion (ID 638) spanning China and Korea, covering the Yalu River basin and streams draining into Korea Bay and the Yellow Sea.
Euphrates
The Euphrates is western Asia's longest river, rising in Turkey and flowing through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris; 2,786 km long, 25 billion m³ annual flow, central to Mesopotamian civilization and modern water disputes.
Gan
Gan (赣江, Ganjiang) is Jiangxi Province's largest river, a 766 km Yangtze tributary via Poyang Lake, draining about 82,000 km², supplying most of the lake's water and sediment, and anchoring Jiangxi's shipping and water management.
Gandaki River (गण्डकी नदी)
The Gandaki River (गण्डकी नदी), called Narayani in Nepal and Gandak in India, is a major transboundary river rising in the Himalayas and joining the Ganges on its left bank.
Ganges
The Ganges (Ganga) is a 2,495 km Himalayan river flowing to the Bay of Bengal, sacred to Hindus, supporting over 400 million people, and the focus of India's Namami Gange cleanup program.
Ghaggar-Hakra River
The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an ephemeral India-Pakistan river whose paleochannel was a former Sutlej course, abandoned 11-8 ka, later sustaining monsoon-fed Harappan settlements and identified by many with the Vedic Sarasvati.
Godavari River
Godavari River: major peninsular Indian river, also called Dakshina Ganga, rising near Trimbak, Maharashtra, flowing 1,465 km to the Bay of Bengal; second largest river in India with a 312,000 sq km basin across six states.
Hainan (protected area)
Hainan (海南) is freshwater ecoregion 759 of the FEOW framework, covering Hainan Island, China; an Indo-Malay tropical and subtropical coastal rivers unit with the Nandu, Changhua, and Wanquan rivers and no recorded endemic fish.
Han
Han: name of two East Asian rivers. The Chinese Hanjiang (汉江), 1,577 km, is the Yangtze's largest tributary and source of the South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route; the Korean Han River flows through Seoul.
Han River (Korea)
Han River (한강), Korea's largest river by discharge, 514.8 km, formed by the South and North Han at Yangsuri, flowing through Seoul to the Yellow Sea; historic Joseon capital river, engineered 1967–1986, now restored with parks.
Helmand
The Helmand, also known as Hirmand, is the longest river in Afghanistan, running about 800 miles from the Hindu Kush to the Hamun wetlands near Iran.
Hooghly River (হুগলি নদী)
Hooghly River (হুগলি নদী), also spelled Hugli, a ~260 km Ganges distributary in West Bengal flowing past Kolkata to the Bay of Bengal at the Sundarbans; tidal estuary, home of Kolkata Port, affected by PAH, trace-element, and microplastic pollution.
Huang
Huang (黄河, Huang He, Yellow River) is China's second longest river, 5,464 km, rising in Qinghai's Bayan Har Mountains and entering the Bohai Sea; famed for silt, course changes, and as the cradle of Chinese civilization.
Ili
Ili (Ile; 伊犁河): transboundary Central Asian river rising in Xinjiang's Tianshan, flowing through Kazakhstan into Lake Balkhash, supplying 70-80% of its inflow; no China-Kazakhstan allocation agreement.
Indus River
The Indus River is a major South Asian river rising in Tibet, known for hosting the Indus Valley civilization and sustaining the world's largest contiguous irrigation network.
Indus River Delta
The Indus River Delta is the mangrove-fringed, tide-dominated delta where the 2,900 km Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in Sindh, Pakistan; once fed by ~400 Mt of sediment yearly, it is now sediment-starved, eroding, and salinizing after upstream dams and barrages.
Irrawaddy River (ဧရာဝတီမြစ်)
Irrawaddy River (Ayeyarwady, ဧရာဝတီမြစ်), Myanmar's principal river, about 1,300 miles long from the Mali–N'mai confluence to nine delta mouths; monsoon-fed, lightly dammed, vital for rice irrigation, navigation, and critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins.
Irtysh (river, Russia)
Irtysh (Иртыш, Kazakh Ertis): major Siberian river, largest Ob tributary, 4,248 km from the Altai through Kazakhstan to the Ob at Khanty-Mansiysk; basin 1,643,000 km², discharge 99.8 km³/yr.
Ishim
The Ishim, also called Esil (Есіл), is a river about 2,450 km long in Kazakhstan and Russia, and a left tributary of the Irtysh that flows through Kazakhstan's capital, Astana.
Jhelum River
Jhelum River (Hydaspes; Sanskrit Vitasta), an Indus tributary flowing through the Kashmir valley into Pakistan, joining the Chenab at Trimmu; site of Alexander's 326 BCE battle, Mangla Dam, and a western river under the Indus Waters Treaty.
Jialing
Jialing (嘉陵江), major left-bank tributary of the upper Yangtze, ~1,120 km through Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Chongqing; largest Yangtze tributary by area (~160,000 km²), joins Yangtze at Chaotianmen, Chongqing; heavily dammed, moderate hydrologic alteration since 1985.
Jinsha
Jinsha (金沙江, Golden Sand River), upper Yangtze section, 2,308 km from Batang River estuary to Yibin; world's largest hydropower base with Baihetan Dam and major flow, sediment, and fish habitat changes.
Jordan River
Jordan River (نهر الأردن): Middle East river flowing from Mount Hermon headwaters through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea; over 90 percent of flow diverted; governed by the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty; distinct from Utah's Jordan River.
Kapuas (landform)
Kapuas (Sungai Kapuas), Indonesia's longest river at 1,143 km, flows west across West Kalimantan, Borneo, to the South China Sea; monsoon-driven, undammed, with Kapuas Kecil and Kapuas Besar distributaries and Pontianak at its mouth.
Karkheh
Karkheh (رود کرخه), third longest river of Iran, ~755 km, rises in the Zagros and ends in the Hur-al-Azim wetland on the Iraq border; basin of ~50,764 km², Karkheh Dam, declining flows.
Karmanasa River
Karmanasa River (कर्मनाशा नदी, Karamnasa), a 192-km Ganga tributary rising in Bihar's Kaimur hills at 350 m, forming the Bihar–Uttar Pradesh boundary and joining the Ganga near Chausa; name means 'destroyer of religious merit.'
Kaveri (காவேரி)
Kaveri (காவேரி, Cauvery) is a major South Indian river rising at Talakaveri, Karnataka, flowing to the Bay of Bengal; home of the 2nd-century Kallanai, KRS and Mettur dams, and the Karnataka–Tamil Nadu water-sharing dispute.
Kherlen
Kherlen (Хэрлэн гол), transboundary river of eastern Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China; rises in the Khentii Mountains, runs 1,264 km east into Hulun (Dalai) Lake, its main water source; undammed, grassland steppe basin.
Kheta
Kheta (Хета) is chiefly a 785 km river in Krasnoyarsk Kray, Russia, the left headstream of the Khatanga; the name also denotes a Magadan Oblast stream, a village, the Egyptian name of the Hittites, and Sanskrit Khetak of Kheda.
Kolyma (landform)
Kolyma (Колыма), 2,129 km Siberian Arctic river in Magadan Oblast and Yakutia, largest river fully in continuous permafrost, 647,000 km² basin, Kolyma and Ust-Srednekanskaya hydroelectric stations.