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Yongding River

The 426th longest river in the world

747 km

The Yongding River (pinyin: Yǒngdìng Hé, Wade–Giles: Yungting Ho) is a river in northern China. It is one of the main tributaries in the Hai River system and is the largest river to flow through Beijing. In recent years, the Beijing segment of the river has dried up due to environmental issues. The Beijing municipal government has invested 16 billion yuan in an effort to replace the riverbed with parkland or smaller bodies of water.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

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

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