Which river is the longest in Asia?

The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia. Known in China as the Chang Jiang, it runs for roughly 6,300 kilometers through China before reaching the East China Sea.

The river begins in the Tanggula Mountains on the Tibetan Plateau and flows generally eastward through some of China's most important landscapes and cities. Its basin includes major urban centers such as Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai, and supports hundreds of millions of people through transport, farming, industry and hydropower.

The Three Gorges section is especially famous. The Three Gorges Dam, completed in the 2000s, is one of the world's largest hydroelectric projects, although it also displaced communities and altered the river's ecology.

The Yellow River is China's second-longest major river, while the Mekong is another important Asian waterway. Neither is as long as the Yangtze, making the stored answer the standard answer for a fair quiz.