Monday, August 31, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Batang River (Sichuan)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Batang (p Batánghé) or Ba Chu (p Baqū, Tibetan, w Dpal Chu, z Bä Qu) is an 140-kilometer (87 mi) long river in Sichuan province in the People's Republic of China. It is located near Batang town, not the Batang township near Gyêgu in Qinghai. The Batang is a tributary of the Yangtze river system. The main course of the river is the Jinsha, into which the Batang empties. Its watershed covers 3,100 square kilometers (1, 200 sq mi); its average flow is 54 m3 per second.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

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

Other major rivers

  1. Amazon6,992 km
  2. Nile6,650 km
  3. Yangtze River6,300 km
  4. Bian River5,806 km
  5. Yellow River5,464 km
  6. Paraná River4,880 km
  7. River Congo4,700 km
  8. Mekong River4,350 km