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04-28-2009 10:17

Land features of the basin have been presented in several articles in this website, and in particular, in The Yellow River Panorama, but since many readers ask me to describe more about the people and culture of the region, I will try my best to oblige these requests. Given below are several short illustrated articles depicting different topics related to daily life.

The position of the Yellow River basin is outlined in the map for East Asia on the right. It lies in approximate latitudes as the states of Virginia, Kansas, Nevada in North America, and countries like Greece and Turkey in the West.

The basin itself is divided into three parts (see map below): upper reaches, middle reaches, and lower reaches, surrounding a desert region indicated in the next map as "inland," whose rivers drain underground, and not into any tributaries of Yellow River.