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Tai Po River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Tai Po River (pinyin: Dapu He) is a river in Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. It has many tributaries, with most coming from the Ta Tit Yan, Grassy Hill, Lead Mine Pass and Yuen Tun Ha area. The tributaries gradually merge as the Tai Po River, which parallels Tolo Highway until Tai Po Market station, where it turns north to meet the Lam Tsuen River.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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