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Gan River
Physical characteristics
Mouth	Lake Poyang
Length	885 km (550 mi)

The Gan River is a river that flows in western Jiangxi, in China. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of eastern Hunan.

It is the major geographical feature of Jiangxi province, and gives its name to the Gan language.

The river feeds into Lake Poyang, which in turns connects with the Yangtze.

Tributary

• Xin River (信江)

See also

• List of rivers in China
• 2010 South China floods

References

1. Carol Benedict (2011). "Chinese Tobacco Production, 1600 to 1750". Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010. University of California Press. p. 41.
2. James Stuart Olson (1998). An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. Greenwood Press. p. 80.
3. Stephen Turnbull (2002). "A Case Study of Chinese Fighting Ships". Fighting Ships of the Far East (1): China and Southeast Asia 202 BC-AD 1419. Osprey Publishing. p. 37.

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