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The Yellow River or Huang He is the second longest river in Asia and the sixth longest in the world at 5,464 kilometers. The Yellow River is called "the cradle of the Chinese civilization".
Its basin gave birth to the first Northern Chinese settlements, and is the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. Almost similar to the role of the Nile River to India. But frequent destructive flooding, largely due to the elevated river bed in its lower course, has also earned it the unenviable name "China's Sorrow". http://www.chinahighlights.com/yellowriver/
Its basin gave birth to the first Northern Chinese settlements, and is the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. Almost similar to the role of the Nile River to India. But frequent destructive flooding, largely due to the elevated river bed in its lower course, has also earned it the unenviable name "China's Sorrow". http://www.chinahighlights.com/yellowriver/