<Tr> <Td> - min </Td> <Td> 2,000 m / s (70,629 cu ft / s) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> The course of the Yangtze River through China </Td> </Tr> <P> The Yangtze (English: / ˈjæŋtsi / or / ˈjɑːŋtsi /), which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third - longest in the world . The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country . It drains one - fifth of the land area of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its river basin is home to nearly one - third of the country's population . The Yangtze is the sixth - largest river by discharge volume in the world . </P> <P> The English name Yangtze derives from the Chinese name Yángzǐ Jiāng (listen), which refers to the lowest 435 km of the river between Nanjing and Shanghai . The whole river is known in China as Cháng Jiāng (listen; literally: "Long River"). </P>

Is the yangtze river the 3rd largest river in the world
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