Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He (hell=no) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of abbr=on. Originating 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 basin has an east–west extent of about sp=us and a north–south extent of about abbr=on. Its total drainage area is about sp=us.