Yellow River
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Sanxingdui discoveries challenge the traditional narrative that Chinese civilization emerged solely from the Yellow River Basin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
She was born and raised in Tibet until 1982, when her family moved to Henan, a bustling province in the valley along the Yellow River.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
Zhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
One connected to the Yangtze River Valley, and another to the Yellow River valley in China.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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