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Dong River

The 820th longest river in the world

523 km

The Dong River is the easternmost main tributary of the Pearl River, flowing through Guangdong and Jiangxi in southern China. Its source is Mount Yajibo in Xunwu County in Jiangxi. Since 1960, water from the Dong has also been exported to Hong Kong.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

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

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