The+Yellow+River

The Yellow River The Yellow River is the third longest river in Asia, following the Yangtze River and Yenidei River, and the sixth longest in the world estimated to be around 3,395 miles long. It originates in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of western China, it flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city of Dongying in Shandong province. The Yellow River is called "the cradle of Chinese civilization." It is called that because its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization. However, frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields, has also earned it the names China's Sorrow and Scourge of the Sons of Han.