Huang He, East Asian Physical Geography

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Huang He,&sp;Hwang Ho[both: hwAng´ hoo´] Pronunciation Key, or Yellow River, great river of N China, c.3,000 mi (4,830 km) long, rising in the Kunlun Mts., NW Qinghai prov., and flowing generally east into the "great northern bend" (around the Ordos Desert), then east again to the Bohai, an arm of the Yellow Sea.