Yellow River is the sixth longest river in the world at 5,464km. Its also the second longest river in Asia.
Yellow River flows west of China from its sources in Qinghai towards Bohai sea at Dongying, Shandong province. It flows through 9 provinces from Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, border of Shaanxi and Shanxi, Henan and Shandong.
China's Yellow River Conservancy Commmission divides the Yellow River into three stages: Tibetan Pateau, the OrdosLoop and the North China plains.
Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilisation. Many Neolithic (7,000 BC-3,700 BC), Bronze (3,700 BC-2,700 BC) and Iron Age Sites have been discovered within its drainage basin.
