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Huang He | river, China | Britannica.com  Jan 21, 2016 ... The Huang He in that region flows generally from west to east. ... Portion of the Huang He (Yellow River) at Lanzhou, Gansu province, northwestern China. .... to extend farther into the Bo Hai (the remnant of the ancient sea now ... In 1194 the river occupied a course running to the southern edge of the delta.
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Yellow Sea - Wikipedia  The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a ... The innermost bay of the Yellow Sea is called the Bohai Sea (previously ... the Yellow River (through Shandong province and its capital Jinan) and Hai .... The southern part of the Yellow Sea, including the entire west coast of Korea,...
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Book Yellow + Bohai Sea 34+35.indb - UNEP  marine habitats in Bohai Bay west of the Bohai Sea;. Yellow River ... It is the innermost gulf of the. Yellow Sea in .... Province and flows east, then northeast, through Gansu Province. It ... The River then runs east through Henan and Shandong.
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China - GEOGRAPHY - Country Studies  The western half of China is a region of sunken basins, rolling plateaus, and .... of the Kunlun Mountains separates into several branches as it runs eastward from the ... North of the 3,300-kilometer-long Great Wall, between Gansu Province on the west ... from it by the Bo Hai Gulf, an extension of the Huang Hai (Yellow Sea).
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Great Wall of China | wall, China | Britannica.com  Aug 11, 2016 ... Although lengthy sections of the wall are now in ruins or have ... The Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan, Hebei province, China. ... The Qi wall was made mainly of earth and stone and terminated at the shores of the Yellow Sea. ... (now in Gansu) in the east and Lake Lop Nur (now in Xinjiang) in the west.
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World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea : Feature Articles  A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. ... In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The region's two major ... time period. The differences in water color are due to changes in sediment.
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Trans-Mongolian Railway - Wikipedia  The Trans-Mongolian Railway follows an ancient tea-caravan route from China to Russia and connects Ulan-Ude, on the Trans-Baikal (Trans-Siberian) railway in Russia, with the Chinese city of Jining, by way of Ulaanbaatar in ... The Trans-Mongolian Railway in the Gobi Desert. Line length: 2,215 km (1,376 mi).
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Tigris-Euphrates Valley - Encyclopedia - The Free Dictionary  Find out information about Tigris-Euphrates Valley. ancient region of Asia, the ... (ms'pt`m) [Gr.,=between rivers], ancient region of Asia, the territory about the .... Khan devastated the area in 1258, destroying the ancient irrigation system. ... and Entre Ros provinces) in the interfluve of the Paran and Uruguay rivers.
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Yellow Sea | sea, Asia | Britannica.com  Yellow Sea, Chinese Huang Hai, Korean Hwanghae, large inlet of the western ... mainland China on the west and north and the Korean peninsula on the east.
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Zhang Heng and the Seismograph  Nov 4, 2009 ... In 132 AD, in the then national capital of Luoyang, Zhang Heng made the ancient seismograph to determine the direction of an earthquake. ... The instrument was cast with eight dragons on the surface (whose heads pointed in eight directions ... One day in 138 AD, the dragon in the west expelled its ball.
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Huang He floods | Chinese history | Britannica.com  Jun 6, 2016 ... Alternative Title: Yellow River floods ... The Huang He, which has a length of 3,395 miles (5,464 km), is the main river of northern China, rising in the eastern ... until it empties into the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli), an embayment of the Yellow Sea. ... The Huang He is often called the cradle of Chinese civilization.
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Morien Institute Marine Archology 2012 - New Archological ...  There are so many ancient tales of flooded kingdoms, cataclysmic inundations and ... "Underwater Archaeological Discovery Yields Korean Artifacts" ... "Latest underwater excavations on the 2,350-year-old Mazotos shipwreck have ..... in a lead coffin, explorers using deep sea oil technology found three large ship sections...
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Great Wall of China | wall, China | Britannica.com  Aug 11, 2016 ... Great Wall of China, Chinese (Pinyin) Wanli Changcheng or ..... also called the Inner Jin Wall or the Jin Trench, which was constructed south of...
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Greece - Gale  North of Corinth is the Gulf of Corinth, a body of water that forms the western ... The term colony, in the context of ancient Greece, has a meaning similar to ... The Minoans, in fact, were the first great seafaring empire, even before the Phoenicians. ... Perhaps a tidal wave, the result of a volcanic eruption or earthquake, struck...
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Great Wall of China History & Facts - China Mike  Most Great Wall histories tell us that it was built in order to keep out nomadic ... For over 2,000 yearsthey regularly harassed, invaded and even .... Khan and his Mongol horde easily passed through at the strategically ... After three days of intense fighting, the more modern and well-oiled Japanese troops broke though.
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The northern terminus of China's Grand Canal is located in this ...  25 jun. 2016 ... video icon  Opened in 1869, part of it follows the route of a canal dug 12 centuries earlier # Quiz # Question. 0:29. Amazing Videos. No views...
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China Guide - China Geography - China Circulation Travel Service  The BohaiSea is China's continental sea, while the Yellow, East China and ... The proportion of various landforms is as follows: Mountains, 33%; plateaus, 26%; ... elevation of more than 4,000 meters and known as "the roof of the world". ... Most notably, the Penghu islands of the Straits are the strategic point of the sea route.
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Lop Nur - Wikipedia  Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a former salt lake in China, now largely dried-up, located between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. .... The PRC detonated its first hydrogen bomb on 17 June 1967. Until 1996, 45 nuclear tests...
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Full text of "The great wall of China" - Internet Archive  332-241 CHAPTER XXV In the Panhandle of China: Kanchow. ... The Veneering of cut stone has fallen away exposing the rubble construction inside. .... This was the Chin who built the 3 4 THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA Wall. ...... The sunrise end is below sea-level ; the sixth emperor of the present dynasty ordered that...
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Free Flashcards about SEAS OF THE WORLD - StudyStack  THE 2000 DISCOVERY OF 7,500-YEAR-OLD ARTIFACTS DEEP IN THIS "COLORFUL" ASIAN SEA SUGGESTS A DELUGE-LIKE FLOOD, BLACK SEA.
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The Yangzi River (Chang Jiang) is 6300km in length - Ancient China  The Yangzi River (or Chang Jiang, which translates as 'Long River') is 6,300km in length. It is the ... west of Qinghai province and its mouth is at Shanghai on the east coast. The Yangzi has ... to be some of the most beautiful scenery in China.