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Current course

The river rises in Qinghai in the foothills of the Himalayas and runs north to Inner Mongolia. There it runs in a big arc, with the Great Wall following it for some distance, before turning east toward the sea:

Cities on its route, listed from source to coast:

  • Xining, capital of Qinghai on one of its tributaries
  • Lanzhou, capital of Gansu
  • Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia
  • Wuhai, in a strategic position controlling a pass
  • Baotou, largest city in Inner Mongolia
    • the capital, Hohhot, is near the river but not on it
  • The great city of Xi'an, China's capital during the Qin, Western Han and Tang dynasties, is off the main river course, on a tributary
  • Sanmenxia, strategic city between Wei valley and North China Plains, where Taoism was founded
  • Zhengzhou, capital of Henan
  • Luoyang, capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, located off the main river course on a tributary
  • Kaifeng, historical capital of the Northern Song dynasty
  • Jinan, capital of Shandong, is just up the river from the coast
  • Dongying, a city on the Yellow River Delta in Shandong

Of course there are many smaller towns as well.

Over the centuries the river has changed its course several times; the last change in 1853 moved the mouth the length of Shandong province. Today the part of the river below Jinan runs northeast and reaches the sea north of the Shandong peninsula; until 1853 it ran southeast and reached the sea on the other side of the peninsula, well south of Qingdao.

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