Gaoyou Lake
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Gaoyou Lake（）is the sixth largest freshwater lake in China
China
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, it is located between Anhui Province and Jiangsu Province. In a sense Gaoyou Lake is a manmade lake, and it’s creation is part of a long story about flood control and hydraulic engineering in ancient China. Gaoyou Lake is now part of the Huai River
Huai River
The Huai River is a major river in China. The Huai River is located about mid-way between the Yellow River and Yangtze River, the two largest rivers in China, and like them runs from west to east...
system as the Huai River flows south through Gaoyou Lake on its way to the Yangtze River
Yangtze River
The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the...
and the Pacific. It is about 39 km long and 30 km wide, covering approximately 674.7 km2.