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The Yellow River carries more sediment than any other
Its load of fine silt gives the river its colour and pushes its delta into the sea The river crosses the loess plateau, where wind-blown soil is easily washed away, and has historically moved well over a billion tonnes of sediment a year. Deposition raises the riverbed above the surrounding plain in places, so levees have to be rebuilt. Its Chinese name, Huang He, simply means Yellow River. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Yellow River carries more sediment than any other: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Its load of fine silt gives the river its colour and pushes its delta into the sea. The figure is taken from United Nations, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.