Yellow River

Yellow River, or Hwang Ho, river of northern China, flowing 2,903 mi (4,672 km) from the Kunlun Mountains, generally east to the Yellow Sea. It is named for its fertile yellow silt and is often nicknamed China's Sorrow because of terrible floods and destructive changes of course. In 1955 a major 50-year flood-control and hydroelectric project was begun on the river.